Comments on: Are hybrids hazardous to our health?

By: swamprat

swamprat — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:11:20 +0000

All electrical motors make noise and therefore emit electromagnetic radiation. No one has bothered to measure the levels nor has anyone bothered to measure the health effects of presumably low intensity radiation. I know that a hybrid owner said that somehow the fields did affect her laptop battery life. After a 3 hour trip in her Escape, the laptop, which was fully charged, had no juice after the trip. On the other hand, when not in the car, the battery seemed to last longer. I don’t know.

By: nerfer

nerfer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:54:14 +0000

This is absolute nonsense. There’s more EMF radiation from cell phone towers and radio stations (AM, FM, satellite), bluetooth, etc, than there is from a DC battery occasionally running a motor in a hybrid vehicle. They’ve tried to pin certain cancers on living under high-voltage lines, but haven’t been able to do that. Somebody is using very inconclusive studies and ignoring real causes (and effects) of EMF to scare people from hybrids. I’d be a lot more worried about the cell phone clipped to your belt than a DC battery behind the back seat. Absolute garbage.

By: gizmo2

gizmo2 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:47:16 +0000

Why is there never a Prius on the cover page when the Hybrid news is negative but it’s always there when it’s positive.

By: dmbpearl

dmbpearl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:57 +0000

Your mom causes boners!

By: xyunya

xyunya — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:25:10 +0000

A4 I have bad news: you will die too. With or without hybrid. Just a function of time and natural stupidity/selection.

By: dmbpearl

dmbpearl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:47:57 +0000

Derek Jeter Drinks Wine Coolers!

By: JohnnyBlazE

JohnnyBlazE — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:37:53 +0000

Everything causes cancer… read an article about how swimming is bad for you due to chlorine levels in pools and the link to cancer… meh

By: A4

A4 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:28:26 +0000

you should die anyway if you bought a hybrid

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:01:51 +0000

Quite simple. Ingredients are: one HemiRetardedRunner, one “soccor” ball, one bed pan. HemiRetardedRunner works in the nursing home replacing diapers and bed pans. In his zest to keep older population clean and wiped he does not see “soccor” ball and steps on it while carrying pan full of excrement to the toilet. He bumps his coconut on the toilet and sparks fly. Since his cranium is of higher density then the human one, he enjoys the experience and repeats its over and over including spilling urine and excrement upon himself. And that is how urea catalytic converter was invented by HemiRetardRunner.

By: jumpoffit

jumpoffit — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:14:39 +0000

whoa, this is heavy!

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:11:30 +0000

xyunya is a fucking expert on EVERYTHING. So how does Doc’s flux capacitor work there chief?

By: olds307

olds307 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:03:38 +0000

hahahahahahhahahhahahha

cheap is dear

By: tzu13

tzu13 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:49 +0000

Hahaha. PLEASE let there be a threat so that all those elitist hippies can die a slow, painful death…

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:41:33 +0000

Depending on state you live in, open alcohol containers are illegal. What was he drinking before?

By: dmbpearl

dmbpearl — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:21:28 +0000

It’s true… my neighbor bought a Toyota Prius a couple years ago and he turned into a total dick! All he does now is drive around the hood all day blasting that song “You’re Unbelievable” while drinking wine coolers.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:20:41 +0000

Actually, I hope the hybrids endanger the purchasers health, since the purchasers (aka poseurs) who buy this garbage will be unlaoding their rotting batteries eventually into the rivers and streams of Bangladesh and Cambodia thereby threatening the health of millions of kids and adults all in the name of saving the earth.

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:16 +0000

mayer_ray_nagin you just produced evidence of 1115 having nuts. It appears that you have nothing to worry about by riding hybrid.

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:15:28 +0000

if you drive a hybrid AND live under power lines…at the same time you may be a toast!

global_lightning, the article in Times was more elaborate then in LLN. There is enough evidence for scientific community to raise concern. Just like there is enough evidence to believe that we are experiencing global warming and perhaps it is caused by human activity.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:10:44 +0000

I read that 1115 got nut cancer from the magnetic field created by his Honda Insight.

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:07:32 +0000

Emmm,
These vehicles should have EMF shielding, otherwise you’ld get a nasty electric shock everytime you touched any surface. You probably get more EMF exposure sitting in front of your computer reading this website. This is 100% FUD.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:44 +0000

Now what if you drive a hybrid AND live under power lines…

By: roger426

roger426 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:57:24 +0000

I was being sarchastic…the fact that they emit emf’s is pure and simple commen sense.

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Hmm, I wonder to whom oil companies paid those sums? The National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute or NY Times?

By: roger426

roger426 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:35 +0000

I wonder how much the oil companies paid for this study to be done?

By: xyunya

xyunya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:37:58 +0000

Yep, Toyota & Honda are extremely hazardous, but not Ford hybrids and future Volt.

By: murphy1

murphy1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:31:52 +0000

oh crap…..ive put 50,000 miles on my prius last year…..guess i dont have long.. good bye cruel world….lol!

By: C6Racer

C6Racer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:31:42 +0000

I knew it!! Hybrids are pure evil!!!

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:28:53 +0000

So, Toyota and Honda are hazardous to our health?