[Mpls] Traffic Congestion Alert: R.T. To Join Hybrid Car PR Event

[Dyna]

>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

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