Hi Lakedude:

___I wouldn’t bother … If you read back through his logs, not only has he preached the HSD superiority vs. IMA diatribe forever, he has even preached his superiority over individuals (without naming names of course) tens if not hundreds of times. He never did like the fact that a particular Insight had almost twice the lmpg of his Prius II

___With the above, he does not drive his vehicle for high FE properly nor does he help others to achieve it with his own “how to” disasters. He loves showing screenshot pics of maximum regen yet knows liitle that doing so is about the quickest way to drive ones FE into the toilet. He reads our posts but it’s his car so he posts what he thinks is best instead of using the continuous learning process like the rest of us do … I don’t know what else I can add other then to look at his lmpg given his self proclaimed expertise on all things dealing with the Prius I and II

___I read his logs about once a month but have always clicked away with the same conclusions as in the past. If he would praise hybrids of all types and give credit to those that know how to push the envelope, his web site wouldn’t be half bad. Unfortunately, he doesn’t even recognize the FE accomplishments of other Prius II drivers let alone the same from any number of HCH and Insight drivers that I remember?

___Finally, he is a member here and will see this thread in short order. If he does not mention Krousdb’s Prius II accomplishments let alone yours and Rjbarlows in next month’s logs, you will know his true colors even better then before. I hope that in the future he steps down off the pulpit and recognizes what others with much more real world hybrid accomplishments have to offer rather then the one-sided “holier then thou” uploads from the past … His site looks more like a Toyota - HSD commercial instead of a site to educate the non-hybrid owning public about a hybrids overall benefits, let alone their pitfalls. Any hybrid that is … I went a bit overboard with some of my statements above but the HSD over IMA bias is so blatant as to make half of what he posts utter non-sense!

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net