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Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG
artemis67 writes "Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage. It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car."
i would love for us to reduce our foreign oil habit, and that includes nuclear energy. but we can't reduce greenhouse gasses as we're not the cause of them. there is much scientific debate, and kyoto, et al. are not based on anything but hyperbole and predetermined computer modeling. i'd find the google links but i'm a little lazy. it shouldn't be too hard to find. in fact, in today's wall street journal, the first Sec. Energy, James Schlesinger (a Carter appointee by the way), calls into question the whole movement. environmentalists take it as a religous tenet, when it is at best uncertain.
anything that helps us to stop sending dollars to the terrorist supporting regimes, i'm all for. but don't base your hopes on some psuedo-scientific nonsense to help with a non-existent problem.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Well, that's pretty fucking irresponsible right there.
>Using the word 'whacko' immediately discredits your post.
:)
Only in your eyes. It didn't diminish the post in mine. Wait, I guess your opinion means more than mine, right?
>Using the term 'big whoop' seriously questions your age and/or maturity.
Actually, I took the phrasing as a clear attempt to show complete disdain, and thought it quite effective.
>Your feelings/opinions are clearly defined.
As opposed to those that attempt to hide theirs by stating them as fact, as you do in your reply? "That is also false. Hybrids were beginning to become popular before the recent gas cost increases. And they will continue to remain popular even after Iraqi/Alaskan/etc. oil starts flowing into the US in the near future."
Note that you provide nothing to support your statements, and in addition, one gets the impression that you're precogisant, as you make a claim about the future in the second sentence.
That's a nice trick, BTW - I don't suppose you could use it to obtain the winning lottery numbers for me, please?
>Your views have already been clearly defined.
As have yours.
>It does not mean anyone else shares your feelings/opinions nor does it make them any more valid.
Nor does it mean the contrary. And, with a little more self-honesty and conviction, you'd have noted that the same applies to you as well.
>we get a ton of questions and praise from complete strangers everywhere we stop.
Must be nice to have crowds of strangers gathered outside your home. Are you sure they're all there to admire your car? Perhaps they're just there to ask you to move out? Or, maybe they're anti-environmentalist whackos gathered in protest
Finally, your last paragraph disturbs me greatly: "Also, not everyone in the world is selfish. There are people who believe in doing what is right, not just what benefits only them." You do what is right to avoid being selfish? I prefer to do what is right for its own sake. Maybe you should spend more time investigating your motivations? I'd imagine that once you have them straightened out, you'd be less intolerant and self-righteous.