Are hybrid cars the equivalent of “light” cigarettes?
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
I got a chance last week to drive a Tesla Roadster around for the day. A wonderful experience, to say the least. It also gave me some perspective that you might only get while zipping around in an all-electric car. As my Clean Break column this week explains, I got a bit smug — started to judge other cars and look at them as part of a collective of individual polluters — smokers, you might say. Sure, some people drive less or drive hybrids or drive super efficient little cars, but they’re still smokers. Smoking light cigarettes or just half a pack a day instead of a pack doesn’t make you a non-smoker. But electric car owners — they’re non-smokers in a room from of a smokers, and I gotta tell you, it’s quite disgusting being in that room.
Read column here.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
