[Setec Astronomy]

I'm sorry, my mother's (non-hybrid) Buick, which was built in Canada, has wheels from China, and suspension arms from South Korea, and who knows how many other imported parts. How about for her next car, if it's a hybrid, we make the wheels and suspension arms here, so we can make up for the foreign metals in the battery? For that matter, why don't we make the batteries here? Let's take one of those idled GM plants and make batteries for the Volt.

I guess you can make an argument for or against anything. Sure, if a hybrid vehicle has more parts, it's going to (perhaps) take more energy to manufacture it. But any car has parts...which take energy to manufacture, so why don't we stop making new cars? And just fix the old ones? Or stop driving? That would save TONS of energy.

I notice you didn't argue that my high-efficiency air conditioners required more parts or more energy to produce, negating their benefit. And I bet it's going to take a lot of energy (and money) to build a nuclear power plant, especially today. So I guess if it takes 10 or 20 or 30 years to make a profit, it's not worth doing? Or why bother buying a house...it's going to take SO long to pay off that mortgage...
See? You can make an argument for or against anything. I guess GM's description of their current financial situation was fine...they were just making an argument FOR it.