I’m embarassed for the educators that tried to teach you critical thinking.
And I’m disgusted at Lyddea’s inability to comprehend a phrase as clear as lugging that extra weight consumes more energy than not lugging extra weight, and damages the pavement more too. The essence of this discussion is minimizing energy consumption – the Prius is just a tool for attempting that.
If Gasoline is THE ONLY SOURCE OF ENERGY the Prius has…</i), then it’s elementary that a more efficient car which doesn’t lug that extra weight up every hill in the County will consume less energy than the glamorous Prius which luggeth.
If ‘critical thinking’ is supposed to be superior to the science we learned in the 50s, I eagerly anticipate the first critical thinker’s announcement of our salvation through his/her/its development of the New Progressive Perpetual Motion Machine. Not even an Obama-driven Prius could compete with it.
