Re: 150 mpg Hybrid

On May 30, 11:31 pm, "Jack May" <jack....@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Sherman L. Cahal" <shermanca...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:a7cb4231-226b-495f-901d-f9b3ee8d0320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On May 30, 1:36 pm, Brent Jonas <brentrjo...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 30, 5:18 am, "Monte Castleman" <mdcastle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I don't worry about MPG or gasoline prices. I bike and use mass

transit. Sucks to be everyone else with hulking SUVs and inefficient

vehicles.

Are you asking for praise, pity, or scorn? Mass transit is the most
inefficient form of transportation and the most environmentally hostile
transportation as well.

The reason transit is so horrible is that it takes a lot more tax money per
passenger than cars. In the SF Bay area, transit takes 64% of the
transportation dollars for a small fraction of the commuters. Roads take
24% of the transportation funds to carry the vast majority of commuters.

The results are that the roads are falling apart and congested because of a
lack of sufficient funds. The congestion caused by excessive spending on
transit results in higher totally system gas consumption than could ever be
countered by transit even if the transit was run by impossible zero fuel
perpetual motion machines.

The total system pollution and CO2 increases are way beyond anything little
used transit can ever counteract. So you are supporting an approach that
can only be scorned by those that understand the total system, not just
favored components.

Your praise seems to be only for technology from the 1800's which you seem
to think is where the peak of technology developed. Again an attitude that
can only be scorned.

If cars are less hostile than transit - "environmentally" then why
does the EPA designate non-attainment air quality for places like LA?

Because - if you're gonna be truthful - the reason why transit is
built in cities has a much to do with non-attainment as any other
reason.

Non-attainment means no more roads that add capacity ... and if
science could prove that congestion produces more pollution that non-
attainment does then non-attainment would be done away with.

If you had 8 years of anti-environmental Presidency and he did not
dismantle the EPA and non-attainment.. the obvious question is why...

no conspiracy theories - please.
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