Posted on 04/14/2005 2:25:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Oh yeah, well a diesel hybrid is way more efficient, but the oil companies won't acknowledge that...and to think, they used to pump the components of gasoline back into the ground because they were undesireable by-products...
BTW the price of diesel in my area has stayed fairly constant for the last 4-5 weeks while gasoline prices have rocket, the local farmers just laugh at everyone driving a gas powered rig...!
"Waiting List For Hybrids Pushing Up Cost"
What moron wrote this headline. It's not the waiting list that pushes up prices, it's the high demand relative to the short supply.
Wouldn't it be nice if just once a journalism major wandered into an economics class. Probably too much to ask
LOL
Yeah. Bet they are great when trying to get through 10 inches of snow. Like that never happens here in the land of the Frozen Tundra./sarcasm
Have you seen the size of the tires on the Prius. They look like they were taken off a tricycle. I wouldn't want to go around a turn too fast or they would come off the wheels.
"I recall reading something in one of Rush's newsletters that prius-owners were ticked because their milage was any better than a regular cars."
At a claimed 51 mpg highway, they are even with some Honda Civics. However, the Civic costs over $5,000 less. Volkswagen Jettas and Beetles are just behind in the mid-high 40's.
This article is uninformed and stupid.
But that isn't a prius.
But only if you don't run out of gas first.....
Yep, there's a Finnish lady at work here that has one...my buddies metro has bigger tires...
I went head to head in my '74 CJ-5 with a Subaru Forester this winter. The Forester came apart like a rusty can of beans! The CJ needed some fender work.
Everybody walked so I can be embullient with a good conscience. The Forester, which lost it on an icy curve and slid into my lane was packed with anti-Bush bumperstickers. It's being converted into beercans even as we speak. I had an artist friend paint a Japanese "meatball" on the cowl of my Jeep.
I can't speak for a Hummer but with my Dodge Ram truck (with the 5.7 Hemi and 20 inch wheels of course) I gotta clean the wheel wells out when it gets up to 14 or so Priuses.
My wife, the wimp, hasta start cleaning them out of her Durango at 5 or so.
I ran my prius into a concrete light post at over 20 mph and walked away. The passenger compartment virtually untouched.
Love the pic. If it was mine I would put "Run Hillary Run" on the front license.
She has a 4 year old car with 19,000 miles? She needs a bicycle.
I gotta '49 Hudson that'll glean the glogk of your Jeep.
Rush Limbaugh foolishly insisted on telling his listeners to get the biggest SUV. This has been proved to have been deadly wrong for our country, and for the individuals who listened to Rush. Please don't take me wrong, I don't care for the "environmental Wackos" as Rush likes to calls them, however, our national energy security and efficiency is a whole different thing. Blow hard radio talk people like Rush don't have the experience to encourage people to buy big gas guzzlers even if the supply is going down, and the refinery capacity in this country is shirking. Rush is correct more than 90% of the time about most issues, but on his diatribe regarding the big & and bigger SUV, he did this country a disservice. He had this funny cowboy song about the little idiot guy buying a Yogo, and the big man buying a huge SUV, and he runs over the little man.
Whatever kind of car that was... It lost in a collision with a medium sized motorcycle!
What I find kind of amusing about this article is that when the 8th-generation Honda Civic arrives this Fall, you'll get a car that is almost as roomy as the current Prius, gets decent performance (thanks to a new 140 bhp 1.8-liter I-4 engine with variable valve timing), better fuel efficiency than the current Civic, and costs several thousand less than a Prius. And you don't have to deal with the hassles of the longevity of the hybrid drivetrain, either.
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