Save The Planet, Kill A Prius!

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From a British Web Site!

The British government is trying to kill off the fast car with emissions based tax bands, but at the same time they’re wasting our money – or so the Tax Payers Alliance (TPA) has claimed.

After they found out about the government’s fleet of 110 hybrids they did a little maths and worked out that they’ve spent nearly £1million ($2.01 Million US) unnecessarily.

They say that changing the fleet to 1.4 litre Ford Focusses would have saved £880,000 of tax payers money.

After doing the sums, the TPA worked out that a Prius is £8,555 more than a Focus, while a hybrid Honda Civic is over the odds by £4,163.

The TPA’s Policy analyst, Matthew Sinclair, said: “The money would be better spent on planting trees. There’s only a marginal difference in carbon emissions saved from switching to hybrids. But trees breathe in 730kg of carbon dioxide over a lifetime.”

They say that the money saved by switching to Ford would save enough to buy 74,028 trees which could absorb (?) 54 million kilos of carbon dioxide.

Sinclair added: “You would have to drive a hybrid car nearly six million miles before the carbon saving would equal that achieved by planting these trees.”

Source: Auto Express