[quote=briansd1]
People who drive Prius, eat organic food, tend veggie garden, people who value science and education should be admired, not denigrated.[/quote]
The Efficiency Paradox: Drving a Prius is wrong, and other inconvenient truths:
It doesn’t take long for him to establish the Prius Fallacy: “a belief that switching to an ostensibly more efficient travel mode turns mobility itself into an environmental positive.” Owen cites statistics showing that as government officials have moved to increase automobile fuel efficiency, our gas consumption has gone up, not down. We simply drive more miles as a species. He also disses HOV lanes, traffic-control systems, and even smartphone apps for finding a parking spot as “counterproductive from an environmental point of view because they make drivers even happier with cars than they were already.”
I think we proved earlier in this thread that Prius driver *do* drive more…by about 40 miles/week.
This same phenomena can be seen in Christmas lights. A few decades ago when huge, power hungry bulbs were strung along the fronts of houses, people only put up 100 or so lights. Now, with ultra efficient LEDs, people have switched to icycle lights and now string up 1000 more more on a regular basis!
