On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:55:38 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Jon
Anderson quickly quoth:

Jon Elson wrote:

There's a guy who was selling his Honda Insight a few weeks ago on
eBay. He had a LIFETIME average of 81 MPG, over 130,000 miles.

I happened across a web site once that had an article on
folks in Japan that hack their hybrids, and go to extreme
measures to cajole every last fraction of a kilometer out of
a liter of gas. Pretty much the exact opposite of the
performance crowd. I don't recall the exact numbers but many
were getting over 100mpg.

That's all well and good, but there's not a chance in hell that the
unwashed masses (daily commuter drivers) could get that kind of
mileage. Can you imagine the sight of all our freeways and roads when
inundated with people who think that the accelerator pedal is off-
limits to touch? thud Unrealistic.

Now where's the hybrid kit for my truck? I'd sure like to see one.
With the gearing in the auto-trans, I don't even feel the weight of a
ton of compost in the bed last week. That truck could have been set up
with a 4-cylinder engine and been entirely usable.

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