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[moreluck]

I need a new truck, but nobody makes a hybrid . My current truck (1996) gets the same mileage as a newer one . Why is that ?

Here's some hybrid trucks....
http://www.hybridtruck.net/

I still see people putting gas in their hybrid vehicles, so what's the point?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I need a new truck, but nobody makes a hybrid . My current truck (1996) gets the same mileage as a newer one . Why is that ?

That's not true--I was following a Chevy pickup that had the word "hybrid" on the left side of the tailgate. I think it was a Silverado.

 

[trplnkl]

That's not true--I was following a Chevy pickup that had the word "hybrid" on the left side of the tailgate. I think it was a Silverado.

It doesn't count if it is finger written in the dirt of the tail gate.

 

[The Other Side]

tos, name me one public project that was built on budget and completed on time.

Here in california BABA, we had a 6.2 quake that devastated the western part of los angeles. In doing so, it knocked down the 5/14 interchange overpasses crushing a vital throughway from nor cal to south cal.

Caltrans with the help of private business, Rebuilt all the overpasses months ahead of schedule earning a completion bonus worth millions of dollars. There are many projects that are completed like this around the country and completion bonuses paid.

With all projects, there are cost overruns, problems, design problems and the like. Just ask GW BUSH. He said we would spend less than a trillion dollars on 2 wars and we are at 6 trillion already.

But what everyone has to understand, is that the longer we wait to build something, the MORE its going to cost when we need it.

People are crying today about costs, yet ignore what it will cost tomorrow.

Exaggerating the cost of a project like this serves no purpose. The world will run out of oil someday, the cost of that oil will continue to destroy economies and peoples lives. The sooner we can diminish our need for the stuff the better off we will be as people.

Peace.

 

[The Other Side]

Here's some hybrid trucks....
http://www.hybridtruck.net/

I still see people putting gas in their hybrid vehicles, so what's the point?

Umm, are you devoid of the hybrid concept?

Peace.

 

[trplnkl]

Just looked up the Chevy Sliverado hybrid PU....list is $38k+ , my '03 listed for $30K

 

[moreluck]

Umm, are you devoid of the hybrid concept?

Peace.

I guess I don't like half breeds!!

 

[Lue C Fur]

Here in california, 1 in 5 cars sold is a hybrid. They are everwhere here in california.

And they all have bumperstickers that say "Obama 2008" because California is full of kool-aid drinking Liberals.

 

[The Other Side]

And they all have bumperstickers that say "Obama 2008" because California is full of kool-aid drinking Liberals.

LUCIFER,

Better to drink "koolaid" under Obama, then the cyanide you and the others were taking under 8 years of Bush.

Peace.

 

[moreluck]

I do fractions.....that means 4 of 5 cars are the REAL kind !!!

So if you view 1 in 5 as a good sign.....then you'd be happy with a 20% approval rating for Obama!!

 

[Babagounj]

Just looked up the Chevy Sliverado hybrid PU....list is $38k+ , my '03 listed for $30K

Let me clarify my request, I need a new truck, a small truck, not a full size model, 4X4.

 

[Babagounj]

Hey tos, move to Cambridge, Mass. where all the prius still have Kerry/Edwards on their rear bumpers.

 

[toonertoo]

Hey tos, move to Cambridge, Mass. where all the prius still have Kerry/Edwards on their rear bumpers.

I still see those stickers, isnt that Edwards guy in some kinda trouble?

 

[trplnkl]

Let me clarify my request, I need a new truck, a small truck, not a full size model, 4X4.

The silverado hybrid comes in a two wheel version. Give em a little time, bet the put that into the smaller trucks in a year or two. Why do you prefer the smaller truck vs, full size?

 

[Babagounj]

Parking restrictions.

 

[raceanoncr]

Dont look now doom and gloomers, but metrolink reports that ridership INCREASED 50% during the Carmageddon over the weekend showing that residents will use the train system if it assists them in travel.

Its all mindset folks, and america needs to change theirs.

Peace.

No, it only shows that "residents will use the train system if" they are FORCED to.

Let's have the ridership figures NOW, after Carmaggedon.

La, la, la...waiting, waiting, waiting...

How bout some figures, TOS?

Waiting, waiting...

 

[Babagounj]

The 30 hybrids now on the market only account for only 2.4 percent of sales.
And last year, Ford sold almost twice as many friend-150 pickups as all its hybrids put together.

 

[The Other Side]

The 30 hybrids now on the market only account for only 2.4 percent of sales.
And last year, Ford sold almost twice as many friend-150 pickups as all its hybrids put together.

Formula 1 next year will be the first to introduce HYBRID race cars in the world. F1 will have HYBRID cars on the track using electric motors in the pit lanes exclusively.

When the car hits pit lane, it must run ONLY on electric power and switch to its engine after it clears pit lane. The world is changing, america needs to follow.

Peace.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Formula 1 next year will be the first to introduce HYBRID race cars in the world. F1 will have HYBRID cars on the track using electric motors in the pit lanes exclusively.

When the car hits pit lane, it must run ONLY on electric power and switch to its engine after it clears pit lane. The world is changing, america needs to follow.

Peace.

With they then replace the electronic timing with hourglasses and/or a sundial?

 

[Babagounj]

Are they going to be equipped with warning buzzers to let other pit crews that they are in motion ?