<div dir="ltr">Just for the record, Dale, I don't much care for Limbaugh. Or most of the other so-called "conservatives" who are basically mouthpieces for the Republican Party.<div><br></div><div>And I don't think the shoe you're trying to put on quite fits you. <G></div>
<div><br></div><div>It's this notion that the Prius is going to be this savior car for the planet. Like I said, an extra 15-20 MPG <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">is</span></span></span> a good thing. I might even buy a Prius when my Accord wears out (or whatever is available then). </div>
<div><br></div><div>All of us want less pollution. Pollution was worse in the horse and buggy days. Imagine poop in the streets. And, when I'm biking and get behind nasty automobiles, I become a rank environmentalist tree-hugging biker dude. Gasp, gasp, gasp. <G></div>
<div><br></div><div>Get rid of all automobiles! Go back to bikes only!! <G></div><div><br></div><div>Nah ... it's a cost/benefit thing. We all benefit from the combustion engine. So we put up with it. If we die from poor air quality, at least the combustion engine extended our lives long enough so we could die from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">that</span>. Otherwise, it would be early death out in the fields under the hot sun. Or poor food, or bad hygiene. Ya know?</div>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="3"> Wow what negativity.<br>
I think anbody who has buys a decent car should keep it and run the life out of it. It good economics utilizing your investment<br>
You Know, I've heard all the Limbaugh blather about this but if some one needs & wants a new car(which people do) and also wants to get a Prius or a Honda or any other hybrid that burns less gas.... what is the problem? Who benefits? I do every time I <strong><u>don't</u></strong> put an enormous amount of my income in the petrol tank. As far as recycling batteries, we recycle batteries now, aa, aaa, regular lead acid, Lithium cell phone batteries, & all other car batteries. Is that bad?<br>
In the final analogy more mileage means more fuel efficiency & less gas used out of a finite supply AND , less money I spent to get from A to Z. In fact compared to tthe old car I'm saving about 3,000 a year enough money to pay formost of the car. I don't need to get smog checks any more who hoo!<br>
One Priu taxi in Toronto was driven 650,000 miles so without a meltdown,teardown, or a battery change so Toyota bought it back to dissect it to see what is what.<br>
</font> <font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="3"> Any way you slice it it's simple economics. I spent less, I used less gas on the planet, I polluted the atmosphere less. so I breathe better. All this & the only thing I'm hysterical about is the money I'm saving & not lining the pockets of Saudi Arabia/Texaco etc.<br>
It's great to live in America<br>
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</font> </font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="3">I'll beleive the hummer gettin 60 miles to the gallon when I see it. My other car is a Camry. The Tundra sits till I need to pull the trailer or until I get the hummer device on my car. Where can I order?<br>
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<div>More MPG is great. I wonder, though, if there are studies done on how much energy it takes to make a car from start to finish. I figure I'm probably saving a bunch of energy that way (by not going out and buying a new car when the old one works fine). My Honda Accord has 287K miles, and I'm going for at least 400K. Keeping a paid-for car sure beats buying an expensive one that gets higher MPG. And one that gets decent mileage (28-30 MPG).</div>
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<div>(who doesn't buy the globalists' argument that humans are causing significant climate change. It changes, sure. Always has. But just follow the money and see who profits from climate change hysteria.)</div>
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