Thats right party people, I was as shocked as you are right now. From the Recorder Website, the article reads "Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage". Classic, hilarious, and true. It just goes to show how we can all get wrapped up in group think, even before we know the facts and even before we make actual informed decisions.
Read this from the actual article:
Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.
The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.
“The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.
Wow, amazing my friends, remember this when you have the urge to jump on the Global Warming bandwagon.
