Re: Hybrid prejudices
Interesting because one of the local anti-hybrid nuts in our USENET group remains 'outraged' that I would drive as slow as 32 miles per hour on a 40 miles per hour, four-lane with a center turning lane road. He seems to think that driving 32 miles per hour is all that it takes to get the mileage I'm getting. This in a town where the only time you don't make it through a light is if a funeral has the intersection blocked. It has been years since I last saw or was in a 'standing wave' like you see on the east and west coast roads.
For those who don't know what I mean, a 'standing wave' is when traffic on a highway mysteriously comes to a dead stop and then takes off again to the original speed.
I also mentioned in the past hitting my 'flashers' to help following traffic smoothly pass me and once again, 'outrage' that anyone would be so courteous as to help others pass them. I mean, you can't reason with these wing-nuts who are all but facsist/commisar in their insistence of just one way, their way.
Seriously, I drive with frequent attention to traffic coming up behind me. I've literally been followed for a mile by drivers who won't turn on their blinkers and pass me. So I've gotten adept at changing lanes so they can accelerate and pass me on the right and then I pull back into the slow lane.
Still the real problem is this over inflated view that hybrid drivers all 'green nuts' to the point that these skeptics aren't rational. They presume we don't know anything about engineering, mechanics and how things really work. So instead of telling us the truth, the facts and data, they 'green wash' a pile of 'dung' and think that is all it takes.
Bob Wilson
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