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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Hybrid Owners Drive More and Get More Tickets, Study Shows ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/17/study-shows-hybrid-owners-drive-more-and-get-more-tickets/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/17/study-shows-hybrid-owners-drive-more-and-get-more-tickets/</guid><description><![CDATA[Some things left out of this story are: It will cost millions to try to dispose of these cars because the cells in them are made out of toxic materials that cannot be recycled. So, what are they going to do with the waste? AND a big problem ::ask your local fire department, they will confirm this:: There is no protcol for putting out a vehicle fire that includes a hybrid or a totally electric car. Putting any kind of hose on this vehicle, including foam or any other fire retardant commonly used in such cases presently will FIRST...electrocute the fire fighter, THEN as the terminals short, the car will explode like a fragment car bomb in Iraq! Let it burn and clear out the entire area that the smoke will reach is the only procedure at this point. NOW...tell me again...what the HELL is the rush to GREEN for when GREEN is undefined and usually creates more problems than it solves?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fireman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 17th 2009 9:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Hybrid Owners Drive More and Get More Tickets, Study Shows ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/17/study-shows-hybrid-owners-drive-more-and-get-more-tickets/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/17/study-shows-hybrid-owners-drive-more-and-get-more-tickets/</guid><description><![CDATA[I've always noticed that hybrid owners tend to be some of the pushiest drivers on the road, from cutting people off (which makes no sense with their low power cars), to insisting on passing semi's on the right in utterly stupid manuevers. And Fireman, you are so right, besides the batteries as well most people don't realize the utterly toxic and carbon releasing process that goes into making these hybrids, there's a study out there I'm sure anyone can find if they actually try, where they talk about how the building process for one actually in the long run makes it more toxic then a gas guzzling SUV.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sucker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 18th 2009 12:52PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
