News on hybrid vehicles, fuel cell cars, and the future of automobiles

It is a given fact that gasoline purchases by Americans results in direct revenue and weapons for islamic terrorists in the middle east who kill our troops and devise attacks on our country. This includes any sale of international oil from any other country because that is what drives up the prices for the terrorist-countries, including Iran, from whom we do not directly purchase oil. We know that by improving miles-per-gallon on average a few points, we would be free of non-domestic oil. Now, it is true that many people truly need large suv’s, or trucks, because of a business, for example land-scaping, or because they have 5 or 6 children, etc. But we all see the millions of suv’s, trucks, and sports cars that are simply used to drive back and forth from office jobs and the store, etc, a function that could easily be done with a hybrid-electric automobile (as I do with mine). So, do these people, truly just have a selfish lust and don’t give a damn about our troops and country?

Fact? No.

How come we have not heard what a great job our (all auto makers) have done in creating respectable gas mileage in our automobiles?
What is the push to the "HYBRID?"
I currently own 3 cars of which are all V-8 powered and range from 400 horsepower plus.
My oldest from 1990 which get a respectable 17 city and 24 to 27 highway and has the most horsepower. This car also has no catalytic converters on it AND it passes the sniffer test…just in case you are not familiar, it passes emissions.
And just to help answer the question I did own a 2000 Cadillac Escalade of which I sold because of the gasmileagee. It only did about 12 mpg…But look where we have come now. I am getting ready to go out and purchase a new Escalade and maybe a new CTS-V. I am not sure if I am going to pay for them after the first payment because Obama will bail me out.
But still 5 cars that will get great gas mileage. How can you complain?
My fear from people I have talked to is where are the batteries going when they don’t hold a charge anymore? And why don’t we know what that will cost? Batteries are expensive! Has anyone changed one lately? I have from having my cars sit, can’t drive them all at once!
So what is the point of emissions?
Does it really work?
I can say from experience NO!
Oh and where is the power goingn to come from when the car gets plugged into the home to be recharged?

Current generation hybrids do not need to be "recharged".
Very few hybrids have needed battery replacement during useful life, including in hard-driven taxis in winter cities like Toronto and Winnipeg. They also have minimu 100,000 mile warrrantee.
27 mpg (maximum) is not good mileage when gas prices hit $3 or $4 per US gallon, and they will get back to that range some day. At those prices, 17 mpg is atrocious. I know people with work trucks that get better than that. Compared to the next generation Prius, which will attain 50 mpg, it is pretty bad.
Batteries pulled from hybrids will be returned by the dealers for recycling. That is all part of the plan in place.
I repeat, the present generation of hybrids do not get plugged in, they are recharged by the engine, and regenerative braking.

When the plug-in hybrids hit the market in earnest, they too will have a complete recycling programme in place. Combining the average gasoline usage with the cost of recharging the battery, the average outlay will be similar to the cost of getting close to 100 mpg out of a straight gasoline engine. Remember, at least part of the recharge can come from solar cells during the day. Those are being improved as time goes on as well.

How come we have not heard what a great job our (all auto makers) have done in creating respectable gas mileage in our automobiles?
What is the push to the "HYBRID?"
I currently own 3 cars of which are all V-8 powered and range from 400 horsepower plus.
My oldest from 1990 which get a respectable 17 city and 24 to 27 highway and has the most horsepower. This car also has no catalytic converters on it AND it passes the sniffer test…just in case you are not familiar, it passes emissions.
And just to help answer the question I did own a 2000 Cadillac Escalade of which I sold because of the gasmileagee. It only did about 12 mpg…But look where we have come now. I am getting ready to go out and purchase a new Escalade and maybe a new CTS-V. I am not sure if I am going to pay for them after the first payment because Obama will bail me out.
But still 5 cars that will get great gas mileage. How can you complain?
My fear from people I have talked to is where are the batteries going when they don’t hold a charge anymore? And why don’t we know what that will cost? Batteries are expensive! Has anyone changed one lately? I have from having my cars sit, can’t drive them all at once!
So what is the point of emissions?
Does it really work?
I can say from experience NO!
Oh and where is the power goingn to come from when the car gets plugged into the home to be recharged?

Current generation hybrids do not need to be "recharged".
Very few hybrids have needed battery replacement during useful life, including in hard-driven taxis in winter cities like Toronto and Winnipeg. They also have minimu 100,000 mile warrrantee.
27 mpg (maximum) is not good mileage when gas prices hit $3 or $4 per US gallon, and they will get back to that range some day. At those prices, 17 mpg is atrocious. I know people with work trucks that get better than that. Compared to the next generation Prius, which will attain 50 mpg, it is pretty bad.
Batteries pulled from hybrids will be returned by the dealers for recycling. That is all part of the plan in place.
I repeat, the present generation of hybrids do not get plugged in, they are recharged by the engine, and regenerative braking.

When the plug-in hybrids hit the market in earnest, they too will have a complete recycling programme in place. Combining the average gasoline usage with the cost of recharging the battery, the average outlay will be similar to the cost of getting close to 100 mpg out of a straight gasoline engine. Remember, at least part of the recharge can come from solar cells during the day. Those are being improved as time goes on as well.

The terrorists and and the destruction of our environment are separate problems, but both fueled by our use of gasoline automobiles. Both problems are destroying our civilization and we are stubidly feeding the frenzy every time we fill up. Why don’t we NOT fund the terrorist countries and NOT ruin the environment, by just pulling out the troops and using the billions of dollars to subsidize electric and hybrid electric automobiles for Americans. Without oil money the middle east will have to build industries and become civilized in order to survive, instead of just buying terror weopons. And best of all, our grandchildren will be able to breathe and be alive and peaceful. And the effort to achieve these goals can be done with the "war" budget already in place. Can anyone tell me WHY NOT??

That’s a great idea, good luck with destroying the arms and oil industries together though …

It would not how ever solve the terrorism issue I’m afraid… They want to destroy the US, period, electric cars or not….

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