04-10-2006, 05:04 PM
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Engineering first
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Real Name: Bob
Location: Huntsville, AL
Hybrids: Prius Classic 03
Posts: 4,910
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Re: Bad Impression: Hybrid = Green?
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Originally Posted by RichC
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Do hybrid advocates (like most here) believe it is important to make distinctions between vehicles and represent each manufacturer's hybrid technology and use in a responsible way?
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There are as many different ways to approach hybrid-electrics as there are hybrid electric owners . . . in the case of married ones, two or three times as many ways. Back when there was only one hybrid-electric, the answers were limited but those days are gone.
Today, the number of hybrids and hybrid owners is nearly doubling every year and if the press releases are accurate, it will continue this way in the future. We have a cornucopia of choices and that is wonderful. We can get a hybrid-electric that matches our requirements . . . this is great!
Look, if someone wants to paint hybrid-electric owners as some kind of two-dimensional charactures, FINE BY ME! It keeps gullable people from buying them and the prices 'softer' until my family cars are all hybrids. For example, I bought my used Prius for a steal because of the "Hybrid Myths" and by golly, I don't mind doing it a second time.
Does this mean other fuel efficient technologies are history? No, but they have to complete. They have to prove themselves in the market place and that doesn't mean a fancy press release or 'study' or commercial.
So going back to the original question:
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Originally Posted by RichC
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Do hybrid advocates (like most here) believe it is important to make distinctions between vehicles and represent each manufacturer's hybrid technology and use in a responsible way?
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The selfish answer is:
"No, we prefer the irresponsible way."
It is selfish because it seeks to mislead the questioner away from hybrids and hybrid-electrics. It seeks to re-enforce the false delimma that is the basis of the question. It seeks to keep the questioner ignorant. It is a trick answer.
Bob Wilson
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