On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 11:40:21AM -0700, Radhika, Y. wrote: > I have never owned a car, lived in the US 12 years without doing so and
I've only owned a car at 35, and it was about 20 years old. My current car is a 10 kEUR Honda Jazz (some 6.3 l/100 km, some 50 EUR/month for fuel), and some >50% of my yearly commute is by mountain bike. > don't own one in Canada now and don't really miss it (who could miss road > rage, stressed shoulders and hands??). In fact, i have traveled by train > from coast to coast in the US and had a fantastic time doing so (met some > real wild west characters in the New Mexico part of the journey). Train is much easier in EUtrashia. > Here in Canada, they espouse the smart car and the hydrogen highway. Can > anybody tell me whether the smart car is really efficient? because the so If it's the 10 k$ Smart, then it takes some 3 l(?)/100 km, which is reasonably good for a current ICE. > called smart car houses only 2 people! As for the hydrogen highway, the Most of the commute is done by hauling 1 (one) canned monkey. > "green" Governor Arnold Schwartznegger says that his 3 HUMMERS are running > on hydrogen. Something wrong with that picture:-))))) Hydrogen is just great; except for small vehicle fuel. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
