Attached is a letter written to Brendan I. Koerner, Wired editor and Slate's environmental answer man known as the Green Lantern. If you haven't read any of these columns they're a great source of information about the true environmental impacts of various choices, and are written without the hysterical or overly self-impressed manner of which some environmental writing is guilty. You can find them all by this link or searching for lantern in the Slate main page.
Bear in mind that this is in fact an email which was written in one sitting with very little editing, and so may have major errors or omissions or places where I make no sense at all. Which you may or may not find different from regular articles. In any case, it was too long to just sit in my sent items folder so, lucky readers, here it is. Interesting also to note that I have been ranting to anyone who would listen about plug-in hybrids since at least 2004 and promised an article on plug-in hybrids in January of 2007 but this is the first time any thing substantive has appeared about them in this space. I still plan to put together a slightly more indepth article.
