Posted on 11/08/2007 7:40:20 PM PST by doug from upland
I keep reading that she’s plummeting. Part of that is because of you. Thank you for what you are doing....and, as always, stay safe.
Thanks to all of you who have been sending the story to those on your email list.
Mine’s tungsten gray too but with tan top and tan interior.
I know! It’s great. I did that very thing Monday morning on a trip to LA. I used the carpool lane illegally to get around a bottle neck, but what the hey. I made up some time really fast. :)
Well, it’s an easy thing to do to get the word out. I don’t have a lot of people on my mailing list, but I send them all the information that you post here on FR. Otherwise they would never know about any of this.
The link has non-gasoline cars too.
Thank you for the clarification. I was wondering if that was why, but I’m not engine-savvy.
When I purchased my current car (a '95 Mazda Protege) I test drove a Saturn. I might have bought it except for the leg room was somewhat limited.
If it saves money then the operators will convert with out any government coercion. If it doesn’t then the government should stay out until the market provides a reason to convert.
It’s not so much to save the taxicab operators money, it’s to save those of us walking the streets from drowning in exhaust. At lunch hour a taxi in midtown will move about one block every ten minutes. The rest of the time it’s sitting there belching pollutants. Same during rush hour.
Everyone wins.
I bought my wife a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid. It is really a fantastic car with about 18 onboard computers. It gets over 50 mpg.
It has all kinds of extras that I could not possibly learn everything about. It has a really thick owner’s manual; I felt I needed to take a class just to learn all the features. For example, a toggle to switch between mph and km/hr comes in handy when we travel north of the border.
And when it comes to a stop it seems the engine is dead but all the lights are on. That is really a treat, then accelerate and still no hum from the engine. It also has a vertical dynamic digit bar to show when the battery is charging or when it is assisting, for example when braking down a hill the bar expands up to show the battery is charging from the gravity and braking.
A downside is the bottom is so close to the ground that one has to be careful not to hit say a parking bumper in a parking lot. Another downside is that when on the freeway or highway the noise emanating from the bottom is loud enough to drown out a good portion of the radio.
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