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| posted Nov 1, 2006 12:58:55 PM | To All |
| ...but I traveled a lot and when I parked it at the airport it would drain its own battery. That sucked. I bought a Toyota Matrix and it gets about 30 MPG, and the Prius hovered around 42 MPG. |
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| posted Nov 13, 2006 5:17:01 PM | To All |
On Nov 1, 2006 12:58:55 PM Libra wrote:
...but I traveled a lot and when I parked it at the airport it would drain its own battery. That sucked. I bought a Toyota Matrix and it gets about 30 MPG, and the Prius hovered around 42 MPG.
Are they coming out with some good ones soon? |
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| posted Jul 19, 2007 10:05:38 PM | To All |
| I'm not a fan of the latest hybrid cars. It is just a half a.. attempt by the car companies. They can do way better than hybrids. The real problem is "up on the hill" capital hill that is. Now we have this perception that if you have a hybrid you are "green", and you save lots of fuel. Funny thing is....I have a standard fossil fuel car. I use less gas than those hybrid drivers. Why ? Cause I'm way more aware of the miles I drive, and I use other forms of trans. Such as biking, walking, etc. Hybrid drivers think they have a excuse to drive extra miles. Forget about hybrids the key is to be critical of your daily driving patterns. Use human power, and public transit. One person in one car is just so wasteful. Remember that suburban america created this fuel crisis were starting to live. It's going to get a lot worse. Americans need to change their transportation lifestyles now. Bottom line. |
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| posted Nov 18, 2007 9:28:59 PM | To All |
On Jul 19, 2007 10:05:38 PM peacefulfitness wrote:
Forget about hybrids the key is to be critical of your daily driving patterns. Use human power, and public transit. One person in one car is just so wasteful. Remember that suburban america created this fuel crisis were starting to live. It's going to get a lot worse. Americans need to change their transportation lifestyles now. Bottom line.
In part I agree.... But where is the transportation to back us all? People started buying many cars in one home because there was a crisis in a house of 4 with one car since most of the suburbs, and even big cities, do not have a reliable transportation system... And since space is bigger in the entire world because of our demographic expansion we need to drive to work sometimes far from home and no time to drop husbands/wifes or kids off on our way.... In order to get million of people to change we need to offer them a solution first.
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| posted Mar 13, 2008 4:24:48 PM | To All |
| I agree about the lack of options in transportation alternatives. I live outside Seattle and our greater Puget Sound area including Seattle has no subway or system. There is a light rail train that runs through three counties but it makes only 4 stops and two runs each weekday; sort of a joke for transporting many people. The best that our local government has to offer is buses which are okay on main routes, but an all day affair if you go east/west rather than north/south. Maybe with the high cost of fuel, we will finally get some rapid transit alternatives. But I don't plan on holding my breath. Our latest and greatest plan is to build a monorail between downtown Seattle and the airport. Anyone who lives here will never be able to use this as parking a car in downtown to ride to the airport is financial idiocy. Clearly this endeavor is for tourists only. |
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| posted Apr 15, 2008 10:15:02 AM | To All |
I STILL HAVE a Prius. 1) If there are no early adopters, there will be no development. 2) I drive less; where's your will power and/or conscience? 3) Getting 45 MPG, which is what I get, is better than 25MPG.
I am not a dilatante. I work in the Org Food industry, I do not eat meat. I built an earth sheltered solar heated home from downed trees.
Why scoff at others? It makes folks like me scoff at folks like you.
We have to start somewhere. Believe me NOT buying a Prius is not going to inspire the Government. |
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| posted May 6, 2008 10:44:53 AM | To All |
| How about opting for a bike!? Copenhagen, Berlin, and other municipalities in Europe have offered public bikes for several years, but Paris took the concept to a new level last year when it made 20,000 bikes available in its inaugural effort. Some 100,000 Parisians are now subscribers. |
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