Hybrids Tech

South Park parodied hybrid car owners creating clouds of ’smug’, but do they really have anything to be smug about? In the battle against man-made global warming and reducing pollution ethanol powered cars, not hybrids, are touted the way to go and politicians and the environmentally conscious alike are jumping on the bandwagon. There is no doubt that ethanol burns far more cleanly than diesel or petrol - we could radically reduce the pollutants in our atmosphere by switching. Or can we? You see, to create ethanol, crops » Read more after the jump →