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Hybrid Cars to Get New Mileage Ratings
Skidge writes "Wired is running a piece showing the drastically reduced mileage ratings for hybrids after the upcoming changes in gas mileage calculations by the EPA. While the cars themselves aren't changing, plugging these new numbers in to the equation makes a hybrid much less cost effective: "The two top-selling hybrid vehicles, the Prius and Honda's Civic Hybrid, will lose 12 and 11 miles per gallon respectively from their city driving estimates." The new values come from more realistic testing; the old, over-inflated ratings were higher in part because the cars idled a lot, allowing the hybrids to completely turn off their engines. The new ratings should be more in line with what hybrid drivers are actually seeing."
So how does this compare with what drivers are actually getting?
In other news, the miles per gallon rating of the bicycle was also drastically reduced today by the US government.
But on the brighter side of things, the Hummer is now rated at 75mpg on the highway.
So a Hummer is getting -10mpg now?
The Farewell Tour II
The smug cloud that's been threatening San Francisco appears to be dispersing.
It's probably because they're three lanes wide, weigh six tons, and get about five-miles-per-gallon highway. Doesn't hurt that they're ugly and most people who drive them drive like dicks.
The Farewell Tour II
Yeah, the earlier model Saturns were more economical. I have a Saturn V and it burns about 3 tons of fuel a second.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
It's just that the hippies are insecure about their penis size.
Girl [looks down] - "Hey, is it.. is it supposed to be so small?"
Hippie - "Huh...? Did I tell you about my neighbour who drives a Hummer?
H - "It probably only uses 10 gallons per mile! Har har. He's obviously compensating for something. Yeah..."
Hey, I drive 70mph and change lanes frequently, and get 43mpg :) (2001 Prius)
Here's a short history of SUV's for those who think it's all about status. The status climbers (i.e. niggers) were the last ones to come on board.
Once upon a time, the only "SUVs" you could get were Jeep Cherokees, and a couple of glorified pickup trucks like Broncos and Suburbans.
Then we had a couple of bad winters. Eight, ten, twelve inches of snow. Middle-class folk said, what can we do about these awful road conditions? They bought Jeep Cherokees in droves.
After that, we never had a bad winter again. But once middle class women - soccer moms and trophy wives - got behind the wheel, they realized how much fun it was to drive their own toddler-crushing, curb-leaping personal battleship.
Carmakers listened. Each and every car maker came out with an SUV of their own. Even Hyundai (!)
But there was something else going on, a $100,000 federal tax refund for purchasing an SUV for "business use."
The husbands of these trophy wives filled out the paperwork. Plenty of them had personal businesses anyway, contruction, home repair, rounding up the mexicans to mow lawns, etc. And corporate business fleets, well that's an easy one.
Pretty soon you had 3 types of drivers on the road:
People who paid full price for a normal working vehicle.
Second, people who settled for a shitbox truck, because Uncle Sam was giving it away.
And finally, the American idiot, who paid full price for a shitbox truck that everyone else got for free.
The point is, regardless of your driving habits (how much you drive), if you get a vehicle with higher fuel efficiency, you will be reducing your impact by the same % as you increase fuel efficiency. This is true whether you drive 1 mile a month or 1,000. If you drive a Hummer (10-15 mgp effective), you are automatically increasing your impact several times over what it would be if you drove a Prius (45 mpg effective).
If everyone in America did not change their driving habits and switched to Prii, the amount of gas we use would decrease dramatically. If everyone in America changed their driving habits to match yours, they could still decrease their fuel usage by the same percentage as before by switching to Prii.
Also, we're mostly just pissed at you for blocking in our Prii by parking in the compact spot a**hole :P.
Except most UAV (Urban Assault Vehicle, a.k.a. SUV) drivers don't drive a real Hummer (a military HUMMV, or the commercially available "H1" Hummer). They drive a whored (not pimped) version of a GMC Denali (Chevy Suburban) called "H2". Or even a shrink-ray-victim version of the H2 called "H3", also available in a "fake truck" version (see also: El Camino or Ford-Explorer-with-an-open-truck-bed).
If you want to join a dick-waving contest, at the very least, bring a dick to wave. H2's don't count. In fact, I mostly see women driving H2's, and everyone knows they don't have a dick to wave (hopefully...).
Also, due to global warming, the outside air just doesn't cool as well these days.
Ethanol? Diesel?
;)
Or just convert. How many electrons are in a gallon, anyway....
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Its likely that English isn't his first language. Give the guy a brake.