"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Yet more hybrid bashing from yours truely

Sierra Club ... clubs the baby seal

The Green Life: Hybrid Vehicles: Silent Dangers?:

"Those lovable, fuel-saving hybrids might not be so angelic after all. Turns out hybrids could be . . . too quiet."


Then we have The Economist on IC engines
Car engines | The old motor roars back

"By putting all these technologies together, small cars capable of breaking the 100mpg barrier will become possible. Getting more than 80mpg from some small diesel-powered cars is already feasible—with a very light foot on the accelerator. Indeed, according to Edmunds.com, an automotive-information service, when you count the overall costs of owning a car, only one hybrid in America, the Honda Civic Hybrid, gets into the top ten of the least expensive vehicles to run, with fuel prices at $5 a gallon. It may be old hat, but the internal combustion engine still has a lot of mileage in it."
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