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Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here
Wired is running a story about the small but vocal, and growing, number of people who aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy. "The conversions aren't cheap, and top-of-the-line kits with lithium-ion batteries can set you back as much as $35,000. Even a kit with lead-acid batteries — the type under the hood of the car you drive now — starts at five grand. That explains why most converted plug-ins are in the motor pools of places like Southern California Edison... No more than 150 or so belong to people like [extreme skiing champion Alison] Gannett, who had her $30,000 Ford Escape converted in December. Yes, that's right. The conversion cost more than the truck."
> People drive to get to a set destination. Fuel savings are on miles driven, not miles able to be found on a tank of gas.
Except for a teenager with a new driver's licence. They tend to drive to what's in their wallet plus whatever Mom and Dad left in the tank.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
So... in evolutionary terms... your the penultimate human? Or are you closer to the guys with the really big foreheads. From the tone of your remarks, maybe closer to the Last Man .
Nice straw man argument. Pick on my vocabulary.. you insensitive clod.
Q. What is Calvin's monster snowman called? A. The Torment Of Existence Weighed Against The Horror of Non Being