Comments on: 125 MPG Toyota Prius dances circles around H2’s

By: t d

t d — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:00:37 +0000

Matt, I agree. Petrol prices are soaring in the UK, in some Tesco ones I’ve seen £1 :/ Not good.
People in the US actually don’t have a right to complain about petrol (or as they would put it, gas) prices when they look at us Brits ;)

By: joe

joe — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:42:12 +0000

don’t but a hybrid, it isnt worht it. – couldnt find a youtube but heres a torrent

http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/Penn.And.Teller.Bullshit.S05E09.Nukes.Hybrids.And.Lesbians._iPodNova.tv.torrent.html

Also ethanol costs more energy to produce then the end product gives us, and the tractors and such used to make it use gas or disel. I’m not positive but i think bio-disel is the way to go or hydrogen cars, but thats not gonna happen for a while

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:29:15 +0000

I love the Prius (and I happen to like how it looks). I’d still like it for all the high tech goodies even if it didn’t get such great mileage. I really love the pushbutton start and smart key system. I don’t even have to take the ‘key’ out of my pocket. I just touch the door to unlock it and press the start button and it’s ready to drive. When you start it, you don’t hear any engine noise, just the ‘ready’ indicator. I love the quiet smooth drive with no transmission shifting jolts. I also like the backup camera, so I can see if any pets or toddlers wander behind it.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:28:43 +0000

…..Bush raised gas prices?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:51:13 +0000

Hybrids are awesome, but the Prius is the ugliest car ever seen IMO. I want that kinda gas milage, but from some other car.

By: Myke

Myke — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:17:33 +0000

The highest Ive seen gas here in CO Springs is 3.37

By: Muff

Muff — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:25:39 +0000

I love the idea of hybrids. The costs of hybrids needs to come down significantly before it would make my shopping list, and the government needs to subsidize these cars more than they are now IF they truly want less dependence on foreign oil.

It seems like the Prius and Insight are the only hybrids that get significantly higher gas mileage. I love Ford, but the Escape hybrid is hardly worth considering at a weak 36/31 mpg compared to the standard version of 29/24 mpg.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:22:21 +0000

Adjusted for inflation, we’re paying the same for gas that we did 30 years ago.

http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html

By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:07:42 +0000

Why are you complaining, thats really really cheap. Compare that to the UK.

The price of 1 liter at the garage half a mile from me is £0.989.

That works out to be $1.964 USD per liter

1 US Gallon is 3.785 liters.

Therefore 1 gallon cost $7.43374 USD in the UK.

That 44.39% higher if my maths work out correctly.

Note this isnt based on a national average petrol price just the one nearest to be, however it seams to be fairly average. Prices are lower nearer to london but higher further away from me. So being in cheshire but me in a happy middle.

How can people in the US complain?

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:37:05 +0000

Here you go…in today’s dollars it looks like about $1.50 a gallon average in the year 2000, compared to around $3.30 today.

Great job!

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/zFacts-Gasoline-Price.gif