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Originally Posted by ssspert  Yeah the H2 concept is great no doubt... we are too poor to drive that high dollar hybrid.
Not cheap starting at 60 grand...
Po folk will have to drive the 30 mpg kia thats falling apart.
The thing about all this problem is that we have to cut our usage way back.
The prices will come down with the lack of demand.
We'll never see 1.50 a gallon, maybe not even $3.
I want a toyota prius. In the same notion, I want a american made hybrid, but the foreign models are kicking american made cars ass. |
Well about demand, a couple of points
1. China and India are coming online rapidly (China for example plans to build 44,000 miles of interstate in the next five years and if just five percent of their population bought a car you are talking about MORE cars than are PEOPLE in America). Even if Americans cut their demand in half (not likely to happen) demand worldwide would still be going up.l
2. If the car manufacturers were offering a car that got 50 mpg (and the technology has existed for a while to do so SAFELY) as opposed to hybrids that get anywhere from 20 to 40 mpg maybe just maybe more Americans would be driving the 50 mpg cars and using less gas.
I guess my main point is that if you drive a hybrid thinking you are saving the environment OR decreasing demand for gas, you are an idiot. If you believe the dirt peoples' spin that pretty much every activity engaged in by man destroys the environment, then you should realize that when you factor in the environmental impact of producing the battery, hybrids have MORE of a detrimental impact on the environment than ordinary gas powered cars. If you think you are saving gas, think again. A 1986 Honda CRX got better gas mileage, by far, than any hybrid production model on the road today.
In my opinion, hybrids are a complete waste of time and resources. We'd be better off building some nuclear power plants and running electric cars off of their output or building the best mileage gas cars we can until we come up with some other power source. Hybrids allow people to feel like they are doing something great for the environment when, in fact, they are not.
The long term solution is to got to something other than oil to power our cars. However in the short term we need to produce cars that get better gas mileage and produce more of our own oil.
I think hp is also a big factor in efficency. Hopefully Detroit will get something on the market and maybe I can afford a used one 5 years down the road.
