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Replacing heavily polluting vehicles with hybrids could drastically reduce greenhouse gases, cleaning our cities and reducing the negative health impacts of living near highways.
- Why the hybrid must be a stepping stone to something better by
- Environment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 5:38 p.m.
As a society, we're bound up completely in the use of the car, because it's one of our two most important forms of communication, the other being the phone. At the beginning of the 20th Century, very few people had either device. And those who did couldn't possibly imagine the effect they'd have on the world economy and the way we live.
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- Editor's overview by
- Environment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 4:35 p.m.
As you'll see from their posts on The Hybrid Debate, all of our specialist contributors have interpreted their brief in a slightly different way.
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- Can hybrids make a difference in the near future? by
- Environment Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:57 a.m.
The future may be bright for hybrids, but it would have to be a very distant future, judging by the evolution of the car to date, and by the deeply ingrained tendencies of British drivers.
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- The hidden costs of a hybrid fleet by
- Environment Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:09 a.m.
People are rushing to buy hybrids because they believe that if everyone were to drive more efficiently then the environment would benefit hugely. However, they’re failing to take into account the massive amounts of energy required to build a car in the first place, and to dispose of it at the end of its life. These “embedded” costs may mean that a future full of hydrids is not feasible, or even desirable.
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- Why hybrids may end up helping nobody by
- Environment Thu, 18 Oct 2007 3:56 p.m.
So what if the future’s got lots of hybrid cars in it? The world may not look any different. Indeed, it may actually look worse. Why? Because of something called the “Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate”.
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