Is it about time we all get hybrid cars??????????????
2007-05-03 12:50:28 · 30 answers · asked by J 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2007-05-03 12:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by dickcollectingtroll 1 · 7⤊ 5⤋
Most hybrid sell for $3,000 or more above the price of the same car in a non-hybrid version. At $3.00/gallon that's 1000 gallons. It takes me nearly 2 1/2 years to burn that much gas. Assuming the hybrid TRIPLED my gas mileage, it would take 5 years to break even. How long do you keep a car?
Note: Gas prices WILL drop after Memorial Day. They do every year.
2007-05-03 20:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a fact of life, get over it, even hybrids use gas. The price of everything has gone up. The funny thing is people are more then willing to pay $3.00 for less then half a gallon of bottled water, but you don't hear people upset about that. Compaired to bottled water I'd rather pay $3.00 for a gallon of gas, and drink water from the sink or hose.
2007-05-03 20:21:24 · answer #3 · answered by lennyspall@sbcglobal.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that the (Hybrid)cars are priced out of reach of most Americans. The reason we put up with the prices going up is because we have to work and there is no competition. I would suggest people drive small cars like the Geo Metro instead of the gas guzzling Hummers or the Dually Pickup Trucks with the loud diesel engines. Duallies are good for people who use them to pull trailers or a work truck. The people that I don't think too highly of are the people who have them because they think they look good driving a dually. Hummers don't serve any purpose at all. Even the military is thinking of doing away with them.
The other problem is Iraq war and Venezuela. China is becoming more of a Free Enterprise country and they need the fuel also. America should have been looking into alternative fuels 20 years ago. Instead of now deciding to go to them at the last minute.
2007-05-03 20:03:07 · answer #4 · answered by Naughtynerd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It should be time but I cannot afford hybrid cars. I am nearing the point where I cannot afford gas either. People continue to put up with it cuz they know the price will go down, but it won't if they do something about it. Ride bikes, carpool, use mass transit, & work from home. I wish I can do all that but I can't cuz the Raleigh/Durham area is so spread out without mass transit.
People also continue to put up with it cuz they got jobs they need to go to.
2007-05-03 19:55:21 · answer #5 · answered by Cuddly Lez 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yo numb nuts,gas is about $5/ gallon in europe.That's our future if the morons elect a democrat president in 08.Hybrid cars are a scam.Do you know the replacement battery is about $3500 last about 3 yrs.Nobody will tell you that when you buy that car.the solution to our oil problem is very simple-we have oil reserves in the USA all we have to do is drill! the eco nuts are strangling our country.one dollar gas is around the corner if we drill our own!
2007-05-03 20:08:29 · answer #6 · answered by dumbuster 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's a forward going around to protest by not getting
gas on May 15.
I don't care what Europe pays for gas, I doubt if their prices
went up as fast as they're rising here. I saw a rep from AAA on the news tonight making negative comments about the
prices they charge & the profits the oil companies are
pocketing. It's shady.
2007-05-03 20:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by Calee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't put up with it - I live in a city with viable mass transit options ... and I use those options everyday.
But hybrids aren't the solution, they're a temporary fix.
Americans have built their ways of life and perceived "dreams" around having cars. Getting a hybrid doesn't solve the real problem of sprawling suburbian / ex-urbian ... in fact it will just keep that unsustainable and ecologically disastrous lifestyle more viable for longer.
2007-05-03 19:59:26 · answer #8 · answered by ModMan65 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I just got myself an '07 Honda Civic EX. it gets 30/40 mpg city/country. I'm not paying for a hybrid at this time. They're a work in progress.
2007-05-03 19:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by Delray 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same reason I do. The freedom and convenience afforded me by being able to drive myself wherever I want to go when I want to go there is apparently worth the higher cost. Gas prices will only go down/stop going up when there is a REAL long-term reduction in demand. Until then, there is no motivation for OPEC or oil companies to allow the prices to fall.
2007-05-03 19:55:33 · answer #10 · answered by UNITool 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Gasoline, along with other petroleum based products and fuels will most likely keep rising over time.
Petroleum is a limited resource. Supply has not really increased all that much over recent years, however demand is growing, especially in China and India.
Whether this is a result of "peak oil" or we're just not getting enough out of the ground is a seperate debate.
~X~
2007-05-03 19:55:52 · answer #11 · answered by X 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋