The new Prius c commercial.
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Most of the US Foreign imported oil comes from Canada
http://205.254.135.7/dnav/pet/pet_mo...im0_mbbl_m.htm
And the nickel for the Battery also comes from Canada
http://205.254.135.7/dnav/pet/pet_mo...im0_mbbl_m.htm
And the nickel for the Battery also comes from Canada
This is from US EIA for 2010:
Top Sources of Net Crude Oil and Petroleum Product Imports:
- Canada (25%)
- Saudi Arabia (12%)
- Nigeria (11%)
- Venezuela (10%)
- Mexico (9%)
Thank you Canada - but that's still 33% from OPEC - of which Canada gladly matches their manipulated non-free market price.
As for nickel, that is hardly the most important rare earth for batteries.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...earth-elements
Then the dictator commandere in thief with backup by SS Holder just enacted another executive order over the citizenry (and the world).
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 16, 2012
Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...s-preparedness
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I'll have to look, but I believe GDI engines will require particular filters in 2017; all remaining internal combustion engines, by 2025. I could be wrong, though.
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This article about 'green energy' is an interesting read for those that think the Prius is 'so clean'. Excerpts:
Analysis: Pollution the big barrier to freer trade in rare earths
Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:26am EDT
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tackling pollution, not freeing up trade, is regarded as the solution to a global shortage of rare earths, the metals that are the building blocks of the 21st century.
The United States, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal trade complaint against China, the world's monopoly supplier of rare earths, accusing it of choking exports of the metals, used in advanced technologies from computer screens to hybrid cars.
Industry experts say the West and Japan have a strong case to argue before the World Trade Organization (WTO), but the same experts and environmental groups argue that mere victory on a trade complaint will not be enough to break China's grip.
Instead, they say the key to ending China's monopoly is for other nations to help clean up one of mining's dirtiest industries - an industry the United States, once the world's largest supplier, allowed to wither many years ago.
China's rare earths refineries, which secured their monopoly by turning out metals at extremely low prices for more than a decade, have poisoned rivers with acid and piled up radioactive waste - an environmental cost that aroused little controversy in developed, consuming nations when metal prices were low.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...82I08I20120319
Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:26am EDT
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tackling pollution, not freeing up trade, is regarded as the solution to a global shortage of rare earths, the metals that are the building blocks of the 21st century.
The United States, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal trade complaint against China, the world's monopoly supplier of rare earths, accusing it of choking exports of the metals, used in advanced technologies from computer screens to hybrid cars.
Industry experts say the West and Japan have a strong case to argue before the World Trade Organization (WTO), but the same experts and environmental groups argue that mere victory on a trade complaint will not be enough to break China's grip.
Instead, they say the key to ending China's monopoly is for other nations to help clean up one of mining's dirtiest industries - an industry the United States, once the world's largest supplier, allowed to wither many years ago.
China's rare earths refineries, which secured their monopoly by turning out metals at extremely low prices for more than a decade, have poisoned rivers with acid and piled up radioactive waste - an environmental cost that aroused little controversy in developed, consuming nations when metal prices were low.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...82I08I20120319
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I guess it appeals to a demographic, just like all those testosterone-dripping truck commercials appeal to another demographic - it's a fairly tongue-in-cheek ad.
Personally I think diesels make a lot more long-term fuel sipper sense than complex hybrids -- I'd rather be driving a diesel than a hybrid when the odometer hits six digits and that big battery pack is becoming a big lump of inert fancy metal at that point whereas the diesel is almost broken in.
Personally I think diesels make a lot more long-term fuel sipper sense than complex hybrids -- I'd rather be driving a diesel than a hybrid when the odometer hits six digits and that big battery pack is becoming a big lump of inert fancy metal at that point whereas the diesel is almost broken in.
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Personally I think diesels make a lot more long-term fuel sipper sense than complex hybrids -- I'd rather be driving a diesel than a hybrid when the odometer hits six digits and that big battery pack is becoming a big lump of inert fancy metal at that point whereas the diesel is almost broken in.
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I guess it appeals to a demographic, just like all those testosterone-dripping truck commercials appeal to another demographic - it's a fairly tongue-in-cheek ad.
Personally I think diesels make a lot more long-term fuel sipper sense than complex hybrids -- I'd rather be driving a diesel than a hybrid when the odometer hits six digits and that big battery pack is becoming a big lump of inert fancy metal at that point whereas the diesel is almost broken in.
Personally I think diesels make a lot more long-term fuel sipper sense than complex hybrids -- I'd rather be driving a diesel than a hybrid when the odometer hits six digits and that big battery pack is becoming a big lump of inert fancy metal at that point whereas the diesel is almost broken in.
Indeed, but in this case the Prius would be a muscle machine. IIRC the Volkswagon XL1 takes 35 seconds to go from 0-60 even with electric motor assist. On the other hand it is projected to get 235 mpg with its .8 liter diesel engine.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars...-liter-235-mpg
Indeed, but in this case the Prius would be a muscle machine. IIRC the Volkswagon XL1 takes 35 seconds to go from 0-60 even with electric motor assist. On the other hand it is projected to get 235 mpg with its .8 liter diesel engine.
Indeed, but in this case the Prius would be a muscle machine. IIRC the Volkswagon XL1 takes 35 seconds to go from 0-60 even with electric motor assist. On the other hand it is projected to get 235 mpg with its .8 liter diesel engine.
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