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Originally Posted by HappyWax
Len A questions the benefits of Hybrids - saying they may not be environmentally all they are cracked up to be -Which may or may not be true.
I am saying that many people who buy Hybrids may know this, and will buy a hybrid regardless because --->Buying A Hybrid it is supporting (through $$) the idea of progressive thinking and manufacturing.
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Sorry if I jumped down your throat. As I think I've said before in other threads, the "hybrid" idea goes back to the '73 oil embargo...but in those pre-historic days for electronics, a mechanical solution to braking-energy recovery was proposed...flywheels. From an engineering standpoint, it makes great sense...just like recovering waste heat from a power plant.
What I support is making things in this country. To paraphrase Ross Perot from his '92 presidential campaign, the way out of our economic troubles is to have robust manufacturing in this country, to put people to work at good wages...who will then PAY TAXES instead of being on unemployment. And the people who have the jobs at REALLY good wages, should definitely pay their share of taxes. I saw Warren Buffet on TV saying that according to the IRS, the top 100 earners from the most recent year that statistics were available, paid 17% average tax--bullhockey! That includes that hedge fund guy that made $3 billion--I'm sure he could afford a little more in taxes to help out Len A.
So the car companies go bankrupt, so we can buy an even larger percentage of imported cars, and all those dealer mechanics and salesmen and admin people can go work at Wal-Mart and Target part time at half their pay.
Whatever.