Eco Car

hybrid vs fuel?

what is worse for the environment fuel efficient cars or the disposal of hybrid efficient vehicles? Of course fuel efficient vehicles are going to be bad because they emit exhaust but i have also heard that the disposal of hybrid batteries are just as bad if not worse for the environment. Anyone know of any good sites or research?
B-Rad, do you have any sources you could give me?

Fuel-efficient vehicles are better than fuel-inefficient ones. Hybrid vehicles reduce the amount of fuel being used and just as importantly drastically reduce emissions. Batteries ought not to be disposed, but recycled and this is totally possible.
See? http://www.batteryrecycling.com/
Eventually we will not be commuting in vehicles employing the ancient concept of internal combustion at all so for now hybrids are a transition tool to that.

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