if your into hybrids for saving money...thats cool, but if your into plug in cars because u want to save the environment......your an idiot, the power you get is most likely from a coal fire plant, so while u let it charge u are causing pollution weither you know it or not, so you tree hugs that think your helping....your not
jordan mes
of ID
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Oct 27, 2008 21:26:58 PM
"Laughs and pains?"
I think you over estimate people when you say it will suck for the owners of these cars when everyone buys them and the power grid reaches its limit or when the saving are negated, because like GlblWmr's attitude people will not change until they have to. So if the world does not just end when we run out of oil, and everyone is forced to make a change there will most likely be a better solution. But for now the savings can easily out-way the cost of driving an electric car. So the laughs (and pain) are mainly for the entire human race as people are unwilling to see that oil will run short and unless we take steps towards change there will be a depression previously unrivaled...
Hmmmm
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Oct 26, 2008 09:53:06 AM
Hybrids
No the laughs (and pain) will be on you when everyone buys one of these dumb card and we find the limit of our electricity grid
sucks for us
of
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Oct 08, 2008 15:29:53 PM
Better Solution.
Just in case no one knew, Henry Ford and Rudolph Diesel intended their engines to be powered by what we now call biofuels. But, they didn't use food...they used HEMP.
Wesley Lawless
of TX
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Jun 30, 2008 20:32:31 PM
Hybrids
The laughs (and pain) will be on you and all when everyone buys one of these dumb cars and the electricity needed to charge them negates any savings you may have now. But, thanks for saving more gas for me.
GlblWmr
of CA
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May 15, 2008 11:51:44 AM
Yes Hybrid
My husband and I bought a Toyota Prius a few months ago. Best decision we ever made. I used to pay around $250.00/month for gas driving 40 miles to/from work in a small truck. It would have been cheaper to get a monthly bus pass for $45 each of us but we needed less restrictive transportation. I now pay less than $100/month on gas because we know how to maximize the hybrid energy. Now I laugh at how long the Hummer owners will take to succumb to the soaring gas prices. Status symbol vehicles are such a waste.
Haupia
of HI
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May 03, 2008 03:03:12 AM
Plug-in Cars
I built a Plug-in Hybrid using a Prius, a second larger battery pack, and a charger. I buy wind energy and my car uses about 4kwh each night to fill the second battery. So each day I travel from Katy to Downtown Houston about 60 miles round trip on about (Right now at today’s rate of 3.25per gallon) 6/10th of a gallon or $1.95 for gas + 60 cents for wind power, for a total of $2.55 per day. I have been driving my Plug-in Hybrid for about a year now.
These cars are real and on the road now. Plug-in cars can be built to be any Size, Speed, or Power. Here is some proof.
Look I never gave up my Yukon XL, I just did the math and I save about $400.00 per month in fuel cost. That pays for my new car, as in “You’ve just won a brand new car!”
We all have to make choices what we spend our own money on. No one should buy a hybrid car until they make one you want to buy. For me, they made one I wanted to buy the day I saw how much cash I could save.
It kind of gives a whole new meaning to being “Green” doesn’t it.
Funny how all the above cars are already on the road isn’t it? --- No, it is not funny, is it.
It is time to start asking questions!!! Why is our government not asking our own auto industry to make more of these cars that shade tree mechanics are making all over the world, with technology already on the market?
Plug-in cars leave more money in your pocket to spend in your local community, improving your local tax base more then gas taxes ever could, or for spending on churches, and charities.
jordan mes of ID @ Oct 27, 2008 21:26:58 PM
Hmmmm @ Oct 26, 2008 09:53:06 AM
sucks for us of @ Oct 08, 2008 15:29:53 PM
Wesley Lawless of TX @ Jun 30, 2008 20:32:31 PM
GlblWmr of CA @ May 15, 2008 11:51:44 AM
Haupia of HI @ May 03, 2008 03:03:12 AM
Cheap of TX @ Apr 03, 2008 15:32:33 PM
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