The focus on getting rid of paper is naive when you start talking about Dyson Airblades. It's not just the cost of running the thing that matters, it's the cos

The focus on getting rid of paper is naive when you start talking about Dyson Airblades. It's not just the cost of running the thing that matters, it's the cost of creating and maintaining the thing. The same principal counts for hybrid cars. They feel environmentally friendly because of marketing campaigns that focus on metrics like paper and gasoline consumption, but when you count the cost of creation, and even more importantly the cost of getting rid of them, it's not as black and white as "we should move off paper and gasoline."