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You won't have to look too hard in order to find a report or two claiming that hybrid vehicles aren't as
miraculous as they are oftentimes portrayed, but when a recent article declared that Toyota's flagship
hybrid was more taxing on the environment than a
Hummer, you've got to wonder what's going on. Incredibly, the questionable findings from CNW Marketing stated that GM's
gas guzzler only cost about $1.95 per mile to put on the road, while the
Prius rang up $3.25 per mile in order to hit the pavement. Reportedly, these zany numbers include all production costs -- which supposedly run around 50-percent higher on the hybrid -- but the story started to smell fishy when we found that the per-mile statistics were based on a 100,000-mile Prius and a 300,000-mile Hummer, which seems to be a stretch in both directions. Currently, there seems to be a huge amount of skepticism surrounding the bold figures, and until the testers place both vehicles on a level playing field from the start, we doubt those discrepancies will fade anytime soon.
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