Why hybrid cars won't help

Hybrid cars won't help stop global warming or emmissions at least not in the short-term.

For the most part, people will have a car to trade on a new hybrid. (For the .1% of the population that doesn't have a car and this is their first car ever, please ignore this post) When you trade in your car on a hybrid, the dealer is not going to scrap your car. Chances are he's going to sell it to somebody else -- whether that's another dealer or a public buyer. Your car will be going into the hands of somebody else who will still be using it -- maybe more than you did! Therefore from our little exercise of buying a hybrid, means there are now two cars on the road. Your old one and a hybrid! Cars may get old and rusty but they still run. It usually takes an accident to send them to the scrap pile or many years of use and abuse.

I believe the hybrid is nothing more than a marketing scheme to get the public to buy more new cars! Oil companies still love the hybrid car, because instead of saving, overall oil consumption and gas use will go up!

Maybe in the long term, the hybrid cars will help out a little bit, but in order for that to occur many things have to happen;

• The hybrid car must outlast the old car that you traded in! I mean with today's cars, who's to say that the hybrid car will last longer than your old car? wouldn't it be a total drag if you're trading kept running and the hybrid packed it in? in that case there would be no savings in the short term or the long-term!
• As much as I love to support the economy, buying a new car hybrid or not, simply adds to the problem. You need to watch the short video; www.thestoryofstuff.com the video talks about how our whole system is set up for failure.
• Once you see that video you'll realize how much simpler it is just to stop eating meat! Contributing to anything new, simply feeds the machine!

It's no wonder so many sourcespoint to the date of December 21st 2012! This is the date of the Mayan calendar predicts will be the end of the world! Not only the Mayans, but Nostradamus, Edgar Casey, and even the Web Bot Program -- a program set up initially to attempt to predict stock market trends, found itself making other predictions! It also pointed to the date of December 21, 2012! What's more concerning is that all these predictors with seemingly accurate pasts, all point to that same date! And they did so hundreds of years apart, from different corners of the globe!

How could all of these different people (and even a computer program) that never knew each other predict the same date in history, hundreds of years in the future?

Their predictions were made at a time on earth when there was no way of these different parties collaborating! It wasn't like Nostradamus could phone up the Mayans and say what you think we should predict for today?

When you look at the way the world is going, one has to wonder if we are on such a path?

How much can this planet take?

• Raking the seas of life
• Chopping down rain forests at the rate of 150 acres per minute!
• Decreasing the amount of oxygenating plant life!
• Wiping out entire species of plants and animals at the rate of approximately 100 per day!
• Using up life-giving resources such as freshwater to process cattle with!?

And most people just shrug their shoulders and go on with their day.

You don't need to go out and buy a $30,000 hybrid car. All you need to do is stop eating meat.

Getting back to the subject of cars, a better option would be to buy a 100% electric car or better yet, convert your existing car to electric!

If you Google it, you will find some companies that will do this for you. Generally they are based in California and it is expensive to do so. Probably less expensive to buy a fully electric car.

The advantage of buying electric car is seen right away. Although your old car might still be on the road, there is an immediate benefit, because one car doesn't burn any gas at all!

But the key to the fully electric cars is that we have to make sure that they are recharged using renewable sources! That is the power to read charge the cars must come from solar wind and wave, or other fully renewable sources. It would be totally backward to have to add more coal burning power plants in order to keep up with the power demand of electric cars wouldn't it?