alt.energy.renewable

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:45:14 -0500, "Jim" wrote:

>
>"Trygve Lillefosse" wrote in message
>news:jmh2f3pvkqgr7nkobaq5jnbrkvnr50k628@ ...
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:53 GMT, "Jim" wrote:
>>> I'm hardly Joe Average and I don't see any sense in it unless maybe
>>> you
>>>live in Manhattan and never leave the island. Fossil fuels are the only
>>>thing we have now, and that's that. IMO.
>>
>> In a way, you are correct. Fully electrical cars have their limits.
>> But if you switched to a hybrid, like Honda Civic hybrid. My guess is
>> that your mileage would improve vastly.
>
> There are about a dozen 40m hills between here and my 4 kids' school,
>5km away. The traffic moves at about 80km/hr. The round trip would kill the
>charge in the car. And where would my daughter's cello fit in, hmmmm? Nope,
>my gigantic Mercury will have to do for now.
> The other thing is that in an accident, I have 2500kg of metal wrapped
>around us. When everyone else starts driving 800kg cars, so will I.

The make and model is even more important than weight.

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