Ken Bradley writes: Hybrid vehicles use little to no gas at 10 miles
per hour because the vehicle runs on the battery system at that
speed.
But that inefficent gas engine has to run to charge the batteries.
Biodiesel is not energy neutral but rather takes energy to plant,
harvest, and manufacture the product.
The gasoline the hybrids run on takes energy to transport
around the world, refine, and keep an army of over 100,000 troops in
Iraq to secure+.
I commend the mayor for driving a hybrid and only wish that ALL of
the city non-emergency vehicles will be hybrids in the future.
Be careful what you wish for- a Prius hybrid costs twice as
much as a typical fleet car like a Taurus, Malibu, or Stratus. While
it gets twice the mileage, with the city buying fuel in bulk and tax
free, the break even point is at about 300,000 miles. The average
city car simply doesn't put on that kind of mileage. You have other
factors that work against the hybrid car too like the fact that
replacement of the electric motor, controller, or batteries would
exceed the value of the car once out of warranty.
The mayor has saved the tax-payers and the environment significantly
by driving such a vehicle.
R.T. Hasn't saved us a cent. Fortunately our Council has more
sense and had decided that all future cars purchased must run on
E-85. That locks in our fuel cost at about $1.50/gallon, while the
hybrids will need increasingly expensive dinosaur deprived fuels.
keepin' warm with renewables in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
Ken Bradley
Kenny Neighborhood
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