Owners of environmentally friendly cars protest at Los Angeles Auto Show

AP | 1/04/03 | GARY GENTILE

[Chemist_Geek]

That doesn't seem like a huge demand to me...

How many adverts have you seen for hybrids? Don't tell me the auto companies, even Toyota and Honda, are pushing them. They aren't. Heck, Dieter is bad-mouthing them. Also, they can create a demand, otherwise they wouldn't spend all that money on advertising.

The auto companies hope that highly efficient vehicles go away, and we all drive SUVs, because their profit margins are higher with the SUV. That's fine, except every SUV brings us that much closer to domination by the Oil Shiekhs. Remember the Carter presidency? Gas lines, "moral equivalency of war", 65 °F thermostats, etc... Thank God we don't have Gore, otherwise we'd be going through Carter II right now...

[uglybiker]

Owners of slow cars always refer to them as "peppy".

Kinda reminds me of the ads for GM cars in the late '70s that had 'sparking' performance.

In the mean time, my politically incorrect '69 Roadrunner comes home from the paint shop next week.
Electric jellybean-mobiles beware! Bwahahahahahaha!!!

[Petronski]

I wonder if these people would have, if they had been living 100 or so years ago, mocked and derided the horseless carraige and the Wright flyer?

Odd that you mention two technologies that worked BETTER than those they replaced.

[Chemist_Geek]

who can afford exotic cars

For what one spends on a top-flight Ford Excursion, one could buy two Prii. Even an Escape is equivalent pricewise to the Prius. The fully loaded Focus is also priced close, but only gets a pathetic 34 MPG on the highway.

[John Jamieson]

Another way to look at it:

In round numbers:
Toyota Prius burns $3,000 worth of gas and $4,000 worth of batteries per 100,000 miles. Similar Toyota Echo burns $4,000 worth of gas, and $100 worth of batteries per 100,000 miles. Which is Greener?

[dhuffman@awod.com]

May I say, like us?

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[thedilg]

"Owners of slow cars always refer to them as "peppy"."

Could they have just misspelled "preppy"

Godspeed, The Dilg