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Poll: Do You Own or Plan to Own a Hybrid Car? - RF Cafe Forums
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Do You Own or Plan to
Own a Hybrid Car?
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I own a hybrid car (Honda) |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
I own a hybrid car (Toyota) |
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10% |
[ 5 ] |
I own a hybrid car (Lexus) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
I own a hybrid truck |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
I own a hybrid SUV |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
I own a hybrid not listed above |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
I plan to buy a hybrid |
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35% |
[ 18 ] |
I will not buy a hybrid |
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18% |
[ 9 ] |
Hybrids are a scam |
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33% |
[ 17 ] |
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Total
votes : 51 |
Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Do You Own or Plan to Own a Hybrid Car?
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:38 am
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Site Admin |
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 451 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings:
If hybrid cars were not so expensive
and I were not so cheap, I would love to own one
if for no other reason than to explore its technology.
Compared to the PoS 1995 Mercury Tracer that I have
been driving for about 8 years, a hybrid would be
a mechanical and electrical wonder to behold. Surely
some of you have hybrids.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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kpainter |
Post subject:
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:23 pm
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General |
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Joined: Wed Aug 20, 2003
11:47 am Posts: 84 Location: Santa Barbara,
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I have a 2002 Toyota Prius. I bought it when they
were price fixed at $19,995 and there was a $2000
tax credit. Since I commute 100 miles per day, I
needed something that got pretty decent gas mileage.
It has 120,000 miles on it now and I have had absolutely
ZERO problems with the car. All I have done to it
thus far is change the oil. I get about 42 mpg since
I moved away from the low rolling resistance tires
to regular tires (which cost about a 5 mpg).
However, they are too expensive now. If I had
to replace it, I probably would buy a conventional
car that gets good mileage. It certainly would not
be a Chevy, Ford or Dodge though. Those things are
pure junk.
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tk |
Post subject: hybrid cars may not be green
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:38 am
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Joined: Tue Dec 26, 2006
11:34 am Posts: 2 |
I enjoy the hybrid technology as I might any new
fangled gadget. However, If my sole concerns to
make a purchase was to be green, high fuel economy,
low pollution, then a couple of things I have read
about the Hybrid cars would make me hesitate in
making a purchase of these vehicles.
First
a story in JD Powers on the accuracies of the EPA
ratings demonstrated that the ways the autos were
tested gave inaccurate MPG ratings. The story said
that the MPG on the Hybrid cars could be as much
as 40% less then the listed rate. Since then the
EPA has revised testing procedures that should more
accurately reflect actual mileage.
Second,
while the hybrid car is cleaner to run, over its
life cycle, from production to graveyard, it may
actually be a dirtier vehicle to the environment
than the conventional vehicles. This was from one
of the science blogs I read, don’t know which one,
live science, science daily, terra daily, or some
other.
While the hybrid may not be as green
a vehicle as purported, it’s still cool technology.
Just do your own researh and talk to some hybrid
owners.
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wb9jtk |
Post subject:
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:52 pm
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Captain |
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Joined: Tue Dec 26, 2006
5:39 pm Posts: 21 |
Hybrid cars are too small for me to sit in. So small
I cannot safely drive one.
Chevy introduced
a hybrid 3/4 ton truck. It got 13 mpg around town
instead of 10. Then the 'greenies' complained that
the truck was not a 'real hybrid' and should not
get tax credits.
If people really wanted
to cut down pollution the government would change
its methods of zoning and we could live close to
work and walk. Imagine how much gas this country
would save if 1/2 of us could walk to work or ride
a bicycle.
If the cops would do something
about red-light running around here I would gladly
ride my bicycle very often and that would make more
difference than a hybrid car. My commute was only
4 miles each way.
Or how about if the income
tax, ss, medicare, property taxes, cellphone taxes,
utility taxes, intangible taxes, capital gains taxes
and state and city taxes were low enough that only
one parent in each family had to work ? (Like in
my fathers day). That would probably cut this country's
fuel consumption 20% in this country.
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Ed Milan |
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:57 am
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Joined: Mon Aug 04, 2003
10:13 am Posts: 11 |
After seeing the new ratings from the EPA, I'd say
we've all been had. I hope there is a class action
lawsuit against the EPA and the auto manufacturers
for falsely advertising what everyone knew was bogus
economy figures. Sure they still do better than
the non-hybrids, but plenty of poor schmucks shelled
out $15k extra for those things thinking that they'd
save big $$$ on gas.
Like the old boy PT
Barnum said - There's a fool born every minute.
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