reflections
My first political comment. I'm 83, so buying a Prius cannot possibly pay for itself in my lifetime. However, I feel strongly that we as a country MUST wean ourselves from the oil dependency to the Arabic world. I'm from Detroit where I lived for 46 years. I have friends who criticise me for buying a "Jap car", and sending my money to the Japs who we fought in WW II. My reasons : First, our own car companies, Ford, Gm.,
and Chrysler were derelict in not seeing that the end of the SUV era was here, dictated by high gas prices. The Japs saw it coming 5-10 years ago. The two best hybrids on the road today, are the Toyota Prius, and the Honda Accord.
The American companies are waking up only because they're
bleeding money trying to sell huge SUVS, and Hummers! Sure they are now going to bring out Hybrids, but I will bet that they are too big, and after the first rush will not begin to eat into Toyota and Honda, who will also by then have larger models.
THe Hybrid is not the final answer, I believe that fuel cells will be the wave of the future, and will last for decades.
As to sending money to Japan, Toyota has created more jobs in America, than any other manufacturer.
Wake up Detroit, and then wake up our government!
RHD
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