Yes, but when you figure in all the energy required to make the batteries for the Prius (and to replace them after 6-8 years), I'd bet that the Puegot HDI (the 407 HDI wagon with a manual gearbox averages 49 miles per US gallon in the city, and as high as 54 MPG driving to Melbourne from Adelaide) has a smaller 'carbon footprint' than the Prius. Ive never, ever seen a puff of smoke come out of the tailpipe. I'll take the simplicy of my little diesel over the complexity of a petrol hybrid any day. Cheers, Josh
----- Original Message ---- From: Chip Mefford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, 28 April, 2008 9:49:10 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] We Need To Solve The Oil Crisis--Now doug wrote: > Hi, > You are saying you got 56mpg from your Prius: I have a 307 Peugeot Diesel & > get ~17Km/L: ie about 50M/imp Gallon (about 10% bigger than a US Gallon I > think: one of the few things the Poms can claim is bigger than in the > States!!) > > If the Pug is driven with economy in mind, the recent Australian record is > 2760 Km on 70L fuel: a 406 peugeot was driven from Rockhampton in Queensland > to Melbourne on 1 tankful of fuel. The diesels leave the Priuses for dead! Yes, no argument. But somehow I doubt the dear old peugeot's can touch the prius on emissions. And I do love the peugeot's but peugeot wisely figured out that the US market just isn't worth the trouble :) Everyone knows that the prius is the worst of all cars, everyone loves to climb on and piss on it. That's fine with me. No harm, no foul. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080428/4696cb4f/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
