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Mine grew five inches upon the purchase of my stretch hummer limo.

i pay $1.23 for unlimited gas. it's called a siphon hose.

stay the hell away from me and my subaru, jr!

Canada has a large number of gasoline co-op's. I also remember one in Minneapolis. Does anyone on here have one close to them? The co-op in Minneapolis allowed you to pre-purchase at a certain rate. If I remember correctly there was a guy who still paid $1.50 for regular unleaded. He bought something like 2500 gallons at that price. This was about a year ago or so.

Brad

Saxman wrote:Yeah, wait till someone buys a 5 year old Prius and then realizes they have to shell $4000 for batteries. There go your savings. A prius only helps you if you have to have a new car and you can afford to pay cash for it. I wish we lived in a climate where you could use a motorcycle year round. I would buy one in a heartbeat.

you can if you're brave

The "something will go wrong with it" argument is so fucking lame. It's in there with the "throwing money at it won't fix the problem" argument (which is somehow twisted around to "let's spend no money at all on the problem"). As with any technology there must be early adapters or nothing will happen. The battery "problem" will be worked out but in the meantime the hybrid engine is going to last far longer than a normal engine because it only runs at it's most efficient speed and only for limited amounts of time. The amount spent fixing a normal engine will probably end up costing the same over the lifetime of the car since there is a lot more to wear out.

Anyway, there are people for whom it makes sense to drive hybrids:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1179838 ... ts_news_us

New York Cabs to Go Hybrid
Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The city's fleet of yellow cabs will go entirely hybrid within five years, and all its vehicles for hire will have to meet new emissions and mileage standards by next year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday...

City officials said the new standards, when fully implemented, are expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 200,000 tons per year. Hybrid vehicles are typically more expensive, but the city said the increase in fuel efficiency will save taxi operators more than $10,000 per year.

Saxman wrote:Yeah, wait till someone buys a 5 year old GM piece of shit and then realizes they have to shell $4000 for a new transmission.

All cars take maintenance and have parts that need to be replaced eventually. But I see two issues with your original premise:

1) I've heard that the battery replacement for a Prius is more like US$3,000
2) Hybrids have been available on the US market for roughly 5 years now - do you know anyone who has needed their batteries replaced yet?

I have a friend in California that bought the first Prius, is still driving it, and loves it. Says the maintenance is next to nothing.

for those of us that don't have $ for a new car there's always the old standby to save gas. drive slower. not that any of us would consider that, of course

and stay home from the Red for god's sake..talk about a waste of fossil fuels....and stay away from concerts, ballgames, driving to the pub, etc....