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[htmlspinnr]

I may brake early, but

I'm generate 60 amps of electricity doing so!


or.

I don't brake gently (or I don't drive slow)

I regenerate often.


For the angry:

I bet your SUV doesn't

Generate 60 amps when slowing.


Or.

While your SUV generate smog

I'm regenerating electricity

Others?
-Rick

[efusco]

Feeling particularly smug today, are we!! I like them, just don't want one of those SUVs lowering my roofline!

[sibtrag]

I'm curious as to whether all Prius buyers (or hopefuls) are so anti-SUV.

My family needs a high mileage car (primarily for my 50-mile commute, but also for trips around time) but it also needs something which can carry adults more comfortably in the back seat and/or much cargo.

We decided we need both a high-mileage car (a Prius if one comes in before our current car dies) and a larger car...for which we chose a small SUV (Subaru Forester).

So, I prefer the first two :-)

[penpendisarapen]

Originally posted by sibtrag
I'm curious as to whether all Prius buyers (or hopefuls) are so anti-SUV.

My family needs a high mileage car (primarily for my 50-mile commute, but also for trips around time) but it also needs something which can carry adults more comfortably in the back seat and/or much cargo.

We decided we need both a high-mileage car (a Prius if one comes in before our current car dies) and a larger car...for which we chose a small SUV (Subaru Forester).

So, I prefer the first two   :-)

I'm not anti-SUV, just anti-wrong-SUV-use. My friends who drive big SUVs have big families (2-4 kids plus in-laws riding too). What I hate seeing is single people with no kids and no extra riders driving big gas guzzlers (including non-SUVs) just for the status of it.

Victor

[tag]

Originally posted by sibtrag
I'm curious as to whether all Prius buyers (or hopefuls) are so anti-SUV.

I'm not! However, now that the technology is available and appears to have been perfected, I think SUVs manufactured from this point on should be hybrids.

[Danny]

I think when you live in a place like Los Angeles (like Rick, Cybele, others on Priuschat) you begin to look around at what is making your atmosphere and environment look all smoggy and nasty, and you first look to the things that are causing pollution - in some areas that's the SUVs, in others it's industry - factories. I personally have never been around much pollution, or at least not what they experience on a daily basis, so the major turn on of the Prius is that it's a cool car with lotsa gadgets to play with and at the same time I've saving money on gas (which is also cheap in my part of the country compared to the nat'l average).

I personalyl don't have a problem with SUVs because I don't see on a daily basis their effect on my environment, and I don't have to pay for the gas in them - but I'm not a big car person and have never even owned a 4 door car before. Well, I'm a big car person (enjoyment), but not a big car person (size)...well, you get it

[terkar]

Fail to see why SUV owners get picked on all the time. Their mpg is no worse that a big Buick, Lincoln or Caddy. Conclude that this must be the bandwagon affect or many people just blindly follow what they read or see on the TV. i.e. SUVs are big thus must be bad.

2004 Salsa Red And 1994 Ford Explorer

Just me and the wife but the Explorer can carry a lot more stuff from Lowes or Home Depot and has loads of head and legroom front and back.

[cybele]

Originally posted by AdminCoop
I think when you live in a place like Los Angeles (like Rick, Cybele, others on Priuschat) you begin to look around at what is making your atmosphere and environment look all smoggy and nasty, and you first look to the things that are causing pollution - in some areas that's the SUVs, in others it's industry - factories.

There is constant construction on our freeways, but the simplest things could yield huge differences. Just keeping the lane lines well marked would ease traffic congestion in the large interchanges - that saves gas and time. Well marked signs and routes would keep people from being confused and keep traffic moving and avoid accidents. The slowdowns on our freeways caused by accidents is a huge source of pollution. Yes, they're crowded, but traffic can keep moving when there aren't obstructions.

I don't think SUVs and the like would bother me so much if they just followed emission controls like other vehicles. That said, I don't think they're the biggest culprits in SoCal. We have to look to things like diesel motors like those on the big ships that come into port - just one of those docking, offloading her cargo and then leaving port is polluting as much as 50,000 cars does in a year. We have a hugely busy airport (several) and a single jet plane can put as much into the air one landing/taxi/takeoff cycle as a single SUV on the road for a year!

Lawn care with its gas-powered lawnmowers and edgers and leaf blowers and other small gas-powered engines contribute as much as a third of Los Angeles' pollution in a day during high use periods! Paint, paint thinners, adhesives, dry-cleaning, these are all contributors to the VOC load in our atmosphere.

So getting all the SUVs and other low mileage vehicles turned into hybrids is still not going to make a big enough dent in our smog problem. But I wholeheartedly support the change.

They should all come with electric lawnmowers.

[efusco]

Originally posted by sibtrag
I'm curious as to whether all Prius buyers (or hopefuls) are so anti-SUV.

My family needs a high mileage car (primarily for my 50-mile commute, but also for trips around time) but it also needs something which can carry adults more comfortably in the back seat and/or much cargo.

We decided we need both a high-mileage car (a Prius if one comes in before our current car dies) and a larger car...for which we chose a small SUV (Subaru Forester).

So, I prefer the first two   :-)

Nah, one of my other cars is a Ford Expedition...I think there is a bit of smugness that can evolve for many of the reasons Danny outlined. Everything has it's place. Realize that the biggest thing about SUVs is that people drive them without considering the enviro impact just b/c of image and size and other reasons other than true need. AND b/c they're not regulated like other px vehicles so the manufactures generally have no incentive to make them less polluting or more fuel efficient...even though they can as we all know now.

Certainly we (I at least) hope that things will change to force those changes and that hybrids will make these vehicles more efficient, more powerful, and less polluting or fuel abusive in time.

[cybele]

Rick! so sorry your thread degenerated (regenerated?) into the age-old SUV debate.

Back on topic ... my contribution:

I Brake
for Electricity

and a more regional one:

I Love Dianne
at Carson Toyota