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To: RetiredNow who wrote (382343)	5/3/2008 9:09:19 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575429

Mindmeld, I welcome the challenge, but you really ought to prove something tougher than the items below: > the Prius gets close to double the gas mileage than cars of similar size; replace all cars with hybrids and we reduce 2/5 of our auto oil use Honda Civic sedan: 26 MPG city, 34 MPG highway Honda Civic sedan hybrid: 40 MPG city, 45 MPG highway Not double like you claim. Toyota Corolla: 27 MPG city, 35 MPG highway Toyota Prius: 48 MPG city, 45 MPG highway Pretty good, but not double like you claim, plus Corolla is a bigger car. > most major car manufacturers will be coming out with electric cars in 2010-2011, then we will have fully electric transportation alternatives We've already been down this road. Electric cars do not get the range. Plug-in hybrids are different, but still not practical yet until you can store more charge in the battery. > we should double the CAFE standards within 10 years to provide the incentive for the market to move in this direction Doesn't answer my question. CAFE standards do not magically make technology appear. You can set the standard to 100 MPG if you want, but that's not going to make the engineers and scientists more brilliant. > it is estimated that we could boost our own domestic oil production by 30% if we allowed more drilling off our coasts and in ANWR I support this. I also support moving toward more energy-independence, but that wasn't your original statement. You said, "We have the technology to solve our energy problems without creating inconveniences to our citizens." Tenchusatsu