Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage

[Heracles 417]

Where are the Euro diesels which get close to or even better highway mileage anyway..

Edited June 13, 2007 by Infidel

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Where are the Euro diesels which get close to or even better highway mileage anyway..

Also, Asian turbodiesels (such as the ones I mentioned) seem to come in close.

[Heracles 417]

Like a Honda accord diesel 2.2l which gets 52.3 mpg

[Cassie 8]

What also wasn't factored into the equation was the nice tax rebates we received this year for buying one.

Still not going to trade mine in!

[almaty 19]

i laways like the south park episode on the prius and being smug

[natty bumppo 297]

Like a Honda accord diesel 2.2l which gets 52.3 mpg

Imperial or US gallon?

[Heracles 417]

Like a Honda accord diesel 2.2l which gets 52.3 mpg

Imperial or US gallon?

43.6 US mpg

Edited June 13, 2007 by Infidel

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Like a Honda accord diesel 2.2l which gets 52.3 mpg

Imperial or US gallon?

Probably imperial. How the heck do u convert that to US gallon?

Approx 1.2 US Gl/Imp Gl

[mawilson 2,133]

I stopped reading when they talked about the 300K miles that a hummer will go.

Everyone knows that no American made car will ever last that long.

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[Emancipation 2]

Every time i look at this thread topic I see...

PARIS (Hilton) Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage.. It's probably not far from the truth!

[GaryC 7]

I stopped reading when they talked about the 300K miles that a hummer will go.

Everyone knows that no American made car will ever last that long.

I have had 2 American made cars go 300K. My father had a pick-up that went 350K. It all depends on how you take care of them.

[zyggy 9]

If we all turned just 1/3 of our gasoline engline into diesel engines, we wouldn't need all the oil that we get from Saudi Arabia and a few other countries run by tin pot dictators.

But the combined front of the oil industry and environmental lobby are stopping that from happening. Even though they've been using it in Europe for years with no appreciable environmental effects with the better refining technology that they have over there. Last time I checked, Eurpoe was a lot more environmentally aware that the US is and they are completely fine with diesel and nuclear power as well, but that's another story.

Heaven forbid the oil industry do something that would erode their record profits. It's better to lean on the auto industry to get increasingly diminishible returns on engine technology that to deal with the real elephant in the room. It's seems like their "support" of politicians has been paying off in spades, especially with the oil man in chief in the White House.

Edited June 14, 2007 by zyggy

[Portlander 0]

They were sometimes called Nicad, but never NiCa (which would be inaccurate, as it's the wrong element anyway--the batteries use Cadmium, the same as nuclear-reactor control rods).

OOps ... they certainly aren't Nickel-CALCIUM batteries..... my bad... I've been studying action potentials so i ought to know that one! I did indeed mean Nickel Cadmium. The point remains the same, though ... I don't really know what is in the car batteries but I know they recycle them, in any case!

[Portlander 0]

If we all turned just 1/3 of our gasoline engline into diesel engines, we wouldn't need all the oil that we get from Saudi Arabia and a few other countries run by tin pot dictators.

This is misleading at best. Diesel #2 is petroleum, just like gasoline. We would only reduce our dependency with diesel only if we went with biodiesel. But we could do that with ethanol, too. Of course, it is much easier job with biodiesel, since no conversion is required.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Like a Honda accord diesel 2.2l which gets 52.3 mpg

U.K., May 6, 2004 – Honda’s new Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Sport has this week set no fewer than 19 world speed records and achieved 3.07 litres / 100 km (92 mpg) fuel economy to boot.