SKIroad'r

take a look at this list/methodology. Seems flawed to me, but maybe I'm just drinking the cool aide.<ul><li><a href="http://www.greenercars.org/greenbook_method.htm">link to greenercars.org</a></li></ul>

quattrothatcould

I remember reading an article that explained how a Prius was more enviromentally harmful than a Hummer H1 over the long run

paulroad

of the vehicle in the equation. The batteries are very unfreindly to the environment.

dubaudi1

I may get the details wrong but the gist of the explanation is right. The batteries are made here in the US. They are then shipped via cargo boat to the assembly plant in Japan. Then the cars are shipped back to the US for sale. By-products from the production of the batteries, as well as disposal, and the back and forth across the world 3 times thing....make the Prius sort of an oxymoron.

**EDIT**....found the link...<ul><li><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/04/EDGI7Q63U01.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/04/EDGI7Q63U01.DTL</a</li></ul>

ruknd

and the batteries are a nightmare

Rocky-in-Connecticut

...plus Toyota includes a $200 "bounty" on every battery recycled<ul><li><a href="http://www.hybridcars.com/faq.html">http://www.hybridcars.com/faq.html</a</li></ul>

ruknd

but it still produces some nasty *** waste