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"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
reenews.net...

"Matt" aka Lord Hall wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:16:10 -0000, "Doctor Drivel"
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"Matt" aka Lord Hall wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:12:51 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Matt aka Lord Hall wrote:
Battery technology have leaped and some Prius cars with
larger battery packs are getting 130mpg.

miles per gallon of what?

Bull****?

Can't be anything but :-)

Lord Hall, that stuff is free. But if all cars ran on it the price
would

go
right up.


A battery pack achieving "130mpg" bends the basic rules of physics
just like a couple of "2.173 litre per 100km Duracells" fitted in a
Maglite does.


Lord Hall, http://www.calcars.org/priusplus.html


That is a car that is charged from the mains.
I thought you understood that that creates lots of pollution and the mpg
figures are meaningless as far as pollution is concerned.