Confessions of a gas abuser, Prius verbalizer, and just a plain dumbas .

Hello, my name is Andre and I was a gas abuser, a Prius antagonist, and a Dumbas . Yes, I did spend 5 years driving a Dodge Mega Cap Diesel and touting diesel as the way to get high MPG, however at an avg of 16.5mpg and dumping black smoke into the environment, I was delusional. Along the way, I was down on the Prius at every conversation. At some point, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw that I was hauling just me in this huge truck and was paying, at the peak, $5.25/gal.

When no one was watching what I was doing on the computer, I started looking at the Prius. My son was mortified when he found out that we were selling the Sportwagon ( the first conversion) for a Prius. He has since been converted by watching the mpg meter.

Those arrogant Prius drivers, all high on their indigent attitudes of low emissions , low cost of driving, giving the middle finger to the Middle East, yes, I bad mouthed them up and down the hwy, but now it's more like Hello, my name is Andre and I'm a converted Prius head. I speak Prius, I drive Prius, and I rebuild broken Prius's. And of course karma has set in and I almost get run over by people in big trucks passing me as I do one or two mph over the speed limit. Although it does take the edge off, when I now know though experience, that they are getting 5mpg or less at that moment, it still brings me back to when that was me doing the passing.

Now I rebuild damaged Prius's giving a low cost alternative to retail for those that can't afford or those who like to invest instead of spend. Unfortunately, that is on a scale of one at a time. It all helps, but it's not enough. My next Prius adventure is to change the way the construction trades use their vehicles in a big way. You see, most get an avg. of 10 to 15 mpg. and don't have to. But that takes changing hard headed tradesmen and green investment, although small, it will be a game changer.

So yes, I do now admit that I was wrong, blinded, and a dumbbass, (I had to miss-spell it), about the Prius.

 

Rebound,

I cannot say for sure, as I'm bound by secrecy, but I can teach you the handshake.

Assumptions, generalizations, and stereotypes. Feeling a loss to their freedom to pick the vehicle of choice and drive it where they want. The generalization that a group of people with very radical views are bringing that fear to bear, and their assumptive symbol of that is the Prius. It's kind of like someone who gets some news from Fox, they are assumed to want to let old people die, the young starve, and have the desire to rape and pillage the environment. But of course nothing could be further from the truth, (see, now stop laughing) but they are still grouped that way.

On a separate note, thanks for all the support from the other members......

 

Tony,

Your welcome. I'm marveled at your MPG chart.

Had a thought about your mileage going forward juxtaposed against an Expedition. You drove 97,131 miles on 1731 gallons of fuel. It would take about 8094 gallons for the Expedition, a savings of 6363 gallons of fuel. Now if an Expedition driver was to do that going forward in California it would cost him $26,725. pre tax dollars to drive that over the cost of a Prius. At an avg of 30% combined tax rate it will cost about $34,741. to drive the Expedition for 97k miles or the cost of a fully loaded Prius, that does not include the amount that could be realized if that gas saving dollars were invested at 10%, which could be over well over $200k after 10 years.

Anyway I'm sure this has been stated many time here. And thanks for that MPG chart, it's illuminating on many fronts.