# Energy cost of Hummer vs Prius **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [May 8, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/energy-cost-of-hummer-vs-prius/189791 "2007-05-08T05:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Corners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Corners](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Corners)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/energy-cost-of-hummer-vs-prius/189791/10 "2007-05-14T19:59:07Z")
> [@Post funny pics of Skunk v1.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-funny-pics-of-skunk-v1-0/30051/12): > > I guess you’d also have to factor in what it takes to process gasoline vs ethanol. And what about bio-diesel? Doesn’t it take a huge amount of corn to make a gallon of fuel? Look at the article again… > The 479-page study is free and well worth digging into. Readers will find, for example, that the fuel a car burns over its lifetime isn’t the largest portion of its energy use, just the most visible. Doesn’t sound like the fuel would have much of an impact of total energy used from dust to dust. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/energy-cost-of-hummer-vs-prius/189791)._