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Originally Posted by Freeze
You can't control other people's ideas or perceptions, and trying only cements their beliefs.
I pulled into a gas station in my TCH, next to a large pick-up. When I got out of my car, I realized the owner of this pick-up left it idling while he was filling the tank. Thinking I should go to another station, I decided to stay and fill up. I put 14 gallons in the tank and was on my way before he finished. The whole time, he was watching me like I was the one with the problem. Strange.
To your point about hybrid owners subsizing them, I feel it's the other way around, since much of the gas tax goes to roads. I look at them filling up and want to say thank you for paving my roads.
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Driving, I just go about my business these days. I don't really see a lot of blatant hybrid hate coming from gas guzzlers, but don't doubt it at all, given the many online discussions at many sites I've seen. Stuff like I'm entitled to it, it's a free country, citing a need for it (that sometimes seems dubious), hybrid vs land barge banter.... Really temped to save those discussions for a few years from now.
America is more sprawled out than nearly any other nation on Earth - very dependant on cars. Oil reserves are more guesswork than many of us would like to admit. Add to that the amount of people living overleveraged may be at a historical high.
We got to think of the body blow to the economy higher oil prices will bring - more need to remember 1979. It's not if but when. I'd be more comfortable with people looking ahead and giving us a chance to avoid a 1929-style market adjustment.