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June 10, 2008 2:45 PM

Hybrids hot, Hummers not

Expensive gasoline has accomplished in a few months what might have taken years by other methods: ending the dominance of the SUV on North American roads. General Motors announced last week that it's cutting production of the rolling behemoths. SUV owners find it costs several hundred dollars a week to fuel them. Forget selling them -- nobody wants one. Dealers won't take trade-ins because they've got showrooms full of new SUVs nobody wants. What everybody wants instead are hybrids. That's spiked demand and pushed up prices. For more on the hustle to hybrids, here's a segment from the Today show.


Posted by Justin Smallbridge at June 10, 2008 2:45 PM
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Johanne
I've heard some interesting arguments about how the new 2008 larger vehicles aren't the pollutants some say they are. Help me understand how today's auto-industry technology is not sufficient in the new 2008, V8 vehicles?

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I wonder about the environmental impact of recycling the batteries of these engines. I recently heard from someone [a car salesman... not exactly a highly reliable source, mind ;) ] that the environmental impact of recycling the batteries of hybrid vehicles is very high. I'm curious as to what the imapct actually is.