In news:40474000.CF34C389@thank-you.com,
Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> being of bellicose mind
posted:
So does fast food, high blood pressure, inactivity, age, and a few
other things FAR more common.
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- Philip

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy.
It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
-Jackie Mason

In news:404743DD.EE5C2B0E@thank-you.com,
Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> being of bellicose mind
posted:
Better check the Bay Area. $3 per gallon already exceeded.
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- Philip @ Maximum Torque RPM

Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> spake unto the masses in
news:40474000.CF34C389@thank-you.com:


If I shoved large particles of sand up your nose, whould that contribute to
pulmonary problems?

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TeGGeR®

cyber <cyber@space.com> spake unto the masses in
news:8nee40hej4fk3fvd0dg9gduaahjtqjumob@4ax.com:

That's the point. It the feds weren't taking your money out of one pocket
and putting it in the other to make the Prius look cheaper, it would be
much MORE expensive than the Camry.



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TeGGeR®

Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> spake unto the masses in
news:404743DD.EE5C2B0E@thank-you.com:


"Truck" sales are only claimable if you use them for business. The IRS
takes a pretty dim view of claiming personal mileage as business.

Priuses are largely bought as personal vehicles, which you can't write off.


And when it's back down to $1.75 per gallon, you guys will look pretty
silly.



As I've always said, environmentalism is today's substitute for church-
religion. People don't worship God anymore, they worship in pagan-like
religions like environmentalism and safety. There is as little sense and
logic and science in these new religions as there were in the old.

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TeGGeR®

Trust me, it is :)

J

LOL, tell me about it :D

J

"Richard Schumacher" <no-spam@thank-you.com> wrote in message
news:404743DD.EE5C2B0E@thank-you.com...

You can't write off a truck or SUV without owning some small business.

Richard Schumacher <no-spam@thank-you.com> spake unto the masses in
news:40474242.7CFE283@thank-you.com:


They speak Japanese over there, so we wouldn't know either way.


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TeGGeR®

In news:c27vji$17$1@titan.btinternet.com,
Coyoteboy <coyoteboyuk@hotmail.com> being of bellicose mind posted:
That alternating black\yellow\black\yellow striped belt is a nice
touch. ;-)
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- Philip @ Maximum Torque RPM

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:18:18 -0800, cyber <cyber@space.com> wrote:

Hybrid cars are most likely the future, but the Prius is hardly the
car for everyone.

On 4 Mar 2004 22:26:06 GMT, Tegger® wrote:

There *is* someone who speaks English and who has driven not one, but TWO
Priuses in very cold weather with no problems (in fact, he's driven his '04
Prius in subzero weather with no ill effects):

www.john1701a.com

HTH. HAND. :)

--
Glenn Shaw
Indianapolis, IN USA
To e-mail, remove NOSPAM and transpose CAST and NET

Greetings,

First some basic facts. An electric motor produces its greatest
force loaded to stall. A gasoline produces its greatest output
when running at high speed. For acceleration from a stop, an
electric motor works better than a gasoline engine. For
cruising down the freeway, a gasoline engine works better.

A hybrid uses the best features of each. A Camry with a hybrid
will accelerate faster than one with just a gasoline engine.

Toyota plans to advertise the Highlander as a more powerful
SUV with the cleanness and mileage features as nice extra benefits.

As for the 4 cylinder Camry, it just does not have enough power.
It really needs the 6 cylinder, especially if you want to
get on freeways safely.

Sincerely,
Bill Thomas

cyber wrote:

"Richard Schumacher" <no-spam@thank-you.com> wrote in message
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People in Japan replace their cars so fast that I doubt that there are many
reliability problems.

It's good to hear some common sense for a change!

Glenn Shaw <togusa@NOSPAMcomnet.cast> spake unto the masses in
news:1akpqfrm0an5.1qn1bdew2laxz.dlg@40tude.net:



Yes, but he speaks English substituting Ls for Rs and vice versa, and Vs
for Bs, etc. How do you understand such people? And me with my hearing
problem? Well. It gets worse.

Do you realize that there is no way of knowing if a Japanese Usenet poster
is YELLING? He can't type in all caps because Japanese has NO CAPS. That's
why everybody thinks the Japanese are so polite. They bow to you and have
cute "Hello Kitty"-type emoticons ^.^ and everything, but you can't know
how they would SHOUT AT YOU YOU STUPID ROUNDEYE if their language were
capable of that.

Combine that with how they all write up to down, and you can't even tell a
Japanese Usenet top-poster! How can you tell the clueless newbies or
clueless Japanese WebTV posters? You can't.

Don't even try to read a Japanese magazine because you will end up reading
the end before the beginning and it will spoil the whole thing for you,
just like that idiot that told you how the movie "The Fugitive" ended and
you couldn't bring yourself to spend ten bucks on a movie ticket after
that.

I have to go to bed now. The tinfoil has fallen out of my hat and the
voices have come back.

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TeGGeR®

dizzy <dizzy@nospam.invalid> spake unto the masses in
news:g5jf40hl9eautvgti6rlet52h0o5vfcv0e@4ax.com:


....provided the government distorts things enough to make hybrids
economically viable.

Otherwise hybrids are an evolutionary dead-end: Too expensive, and an
attempt at "saving" something which is in great abundance in any case.

Hybrids are a silly concept, only supportable by an economy that is so rich
and efficient that it can tolerate obscenely profligate waste of its
resources.


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TeGGeR®

In news:HpQ1c.276$H%3.78@news.cpqcorp.net,
Bill Thomas <Bill_Thomas@hp.com> being of bellicose mind posted:
NONSENSE. 160 hp 2.5 liter four cylinder isn't enough power to move
a 3,000 lb car? Get off it!
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- Philip @ Maximum Torque RPM

Tegger® wrote:

Tegger® wrote:

I think it is the internal combustion engine that is the "dead end" Not
much has changed since 100 years ago.