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Prius smackdown, round two
High gas prices make hybrids look even better |
Clark Williams-Derry |
07 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A couple of years ago, I ran some numbers trying to figure out which was the better buy for the planet -- a biodiesel Jetta or a hybrid Prius. And I came to the tentative, but perhaps counterintuitive, conclusion that the best buy was ... wait for it ... a Toyota Corolla. The Corolla, you see, was thousands of dollars cheaper than the Prius (the runner-up), even after I accounted for all the savings on gas from driving a fuel-miser. And if you were a gre ... |
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| Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, energy, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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