OT Hybrids

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ORIGINAL: Zakhal

I dont even have a drivers licence. Trip to work takes like 20min with a bike and just today I got a better job that is 7min away with bike.  [:D]

Ill advised for most US Americans. Since there are great distances to travel. For example: At times I have to drive 93 miles from my job to home and that would include going from sea level to 4600 feet.
Though I'm a fan of bike riding(mountain bike) for exercise.

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ORIGINAL: Arinvald

AU Tiger, I am aware of the difficulties in any alternative to good old oil, I am just looking forward to a day when there is some alternative. I am not coming at this from an enviromentalist perspective, though I do appreciate a "clean" enviroment, but from a desire to be much less dependent on supplies of energy from unstable regions of the world. I don't care what propels my car as long as the proceeds don't go to rather unsavory governments.

At the risk of going political here:
If you truly feel that way then contact your congressman and senator, and tell them you support drilling off-shore and in the ANWR. Yes alternative fuel sources are the way to go, eventually. Eventually meaning a loooooong time from now. We simply don't have anywhere near the technology for widespread usage of other sources of energy yet.

[sol_invictus]

I'm all for exploiting our own resources in order to give technological advances time to become feasible. My national elected leaders are certainly onboard.

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ORIGINAL: Arinvald

I'm all for exploiting our own resources in order to give technological advances time to become feasible. My national elected leaders are certainly onboard.

True, the nationally elected leadership is onboard, but the legislature is another story. Congress, many members of whom are beholden to the wacky zealot environmentalism lobby, have shot down every initiative to open drilling. Current EPA regulations make it nearly impossible to construct refineries today also.

[sol_invictus]

I'm from coal country and a red state, so no problem here. Liquified coal is all the rage here at the moment.

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ORIGINAL: AU Tiger
As to Hybrids:
If you do a lot of city driving, then the Hybrids may be the way to go for you. They aren't so wonderful for highway driving. A Ford Fiesta, or some small diesel car would be the better choice. The way Hybrids work is by converting braking energy into chemical energy (charging a battery rather than generating heat through friction in normal brake pad/shoe configurations). If you aren't in stop and go traffic all of the time, then there is no point in paying the premium for a "green" vehicle.

In London, hybrids are also exempt from paying the £8 ($16) daily congestion charge. That makes for a big saving if you have the car for a few years. The fuel economy ratings of a Prius are also very good for driving around town.

What really annoys me about these cars is watching them overtaking me on the highway when they are doing 90mph. That sort of driving completely defies the point of owning a hybrid, where the extra power train is nothing more than excess weight.

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ORIGINAL: Mobeer


In London, hybrids are also exempt from paying the £8 ($16) daily congestion charge. That makes for a big saving if you have the car for a few years. The fuel economy ratings of a Prius are also very good for driving around town.

What really annoys me about these cars is watching them overtaking me on the highway when they are doing 90mph. That sort of driving completely defies the point of owning a hybrid, where the extra power train is nothing more than excess weight.

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How often is that charge levied? Monthly, weekly, or yearly, not daily I hope!

You have the wrong attitude apparently about hybrid drivers: Even though they are motoring along at 90 MPH, they are doing it in a HYBRID! Not only are they saving the unborn baby gay whales with every passing mile, they are impressing their friends with how environmentally conscious they are.

My uncle is one of those. He is an unreconstructed hippy living way out in the country. Driving a hybrid gives him a sense of superiority over the rest of the rest of us "unwashed masses".
He is family, but more importantly an AUBURN fan, therefore he is still a fine fellow.
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WAR EAGLE!


EDIT: A grammatical time-out for our cousins across the pond.

"Unreconstructed" is actually a word we recognize in the Southern US, dating back to the end of The War Of Northern Aggression.

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AU Tiger,


If I rob you tommorow will I still be a fine man. That is, if I was an Auburn Tiger fan, right?[:D]