Well sure that is progress, but it's done somewhat at the expense of comfort and performance. While there's nothing wrong with either of those and I'm sure the Prius is a great vehicle and possibly the best mass-marketed green vehicle, I think far more could be accomplished in the way of reducing overall consumption.
Comparing the Prius to the vehicles produced 15 - 30 years ago on the comfort/performance scale is skewing things a little. The comfort/perfromance of those older vehicles was acceptable to the purchasers and they got close to the same mpg. On the 1/10 emissions, I agree that's important. Tom C. >From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? >Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:40:50 -0800 > >Yes, it is, but with 1/10 the toxic emissions output and double the >performance. >Yes, that's progress. > >G > >On Dec 28, 2006, at 8:22 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > Gee, the average mileage is almost as good as I was getting with my > > purely gasoline powered Toyota Starlet in mixed driving over the year > > that I owned it. Ah, progress. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
