Toyota's Controversial 1:6:90 Rule: Prioritizing Hybrids Over EVs

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10. Pick your poison, they are all bad!

The people with the smallest environmental footprints generally live in cities and don't own cars.

It doesn't really matter what powers our cars because the environmental impacts of automobile are huge and growing. The best car is no car.

If we had any sense we'd be rebuilding our cities, turning them into attractive affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary.

Maybe we could start by tearing down some freeways. (One can dream...)

Transportation fuels are not going away. Electric airliners are not going to be crossing the Pacific ocean anytime soon, if ever.

If we actually cared about the environment we'd be synthesizing carbon-neutral transportation fuels using nuclear power and we'd be leaving fossil fuels in the ground.