Hybrid!

Also, I buy battery stocks CSGH! It's time to have another battery bubble!

I'm number 412 on the waiting list for an Aptera, which goes 120 miles on about one dollar's worth of electricity.  I believe Detroit can do so much better than what they are putting out.

I hope the results of the survey truly reflect the general opinion of the American public given the current gas prices.  Sometimes I think the only way is to legislate the gas hogs out of the market or artificially drive up the fuel cost to $6 per gallon like they do in Europe.

I'll buy another one like I have now.  A $500 beater that runs great, is totally dependable, cheap to insure at $14.00/mo, and gets 35 MPG.  Screw going into debt for one of those new pieces of crap.  I haven't paid over $500 for a vehicle since 1982 and I'm perfectly happy with that.  Every one I've owned has given me at least 100,000 miles of cheap, reliable service.  The only new car I've ever had was a total piece of junk from the get-go.  Never again!

This pholosophy allows me to have no debt, a decent savings account and to buy pretty much whatever I want, when I want, and to pay cash for it.  Putting oneself into debt for $40,000 just to drive around in a new vehicle that will be essentially worthless by the time it's paid off is idiotic, in my opinion.

I'm headed for anything as electric as I can get it from now on.  I'm done with car companies who coddle the Oil companies and thumb their noses at public demand to free us from their evil grip.  The Oil Co's are doing nothing but  holding the prices to try to kill these new models but I honestly don't believe it's going to work this time.  And I couldn't care less if gas was 5 cents a gallon.  I'm done with the fuel combustion engine and the lies and manipulation from both the Detroit 3 and Exxon Mobil to keep me addicted to it.

After 3 years with this Prius I can say with all confidence ... this is the current of the future.

My job requires a lot of driving each day. I need a vehicle that is safe/reliable in all kinds of weather conditions, including lots of snow.  A vehicle with AWD or 4x4 fit that bill. I think a lot of people that live in the northern states where snow is an issue feel the way I do.

I want a plug-in hybrid that I can fuel with my home solar panels.

I wish to buy a Scion XD. I would like to have one with 20horsepower less than the current model. This will get me 35 to 40+ gallons per mile . the car will haul 4 passengers and it will travel a solid 65 miles per hour.

MY previous car was a Chevrolet Geo Spectrum. It carried four people comfortably and got 37 average mpg and did 44 mpg on the highway. It had an 8.3 gallon gas tank.

A car should have sufficient space to carry what you want to carry in reasonable comfort and cost the minimum cost per unit mile for the maximum number of miles that it can do this reliably.

This is the only purpose for a car.

I cant afford the insurance so therefore I buy beaters and pay the no fault instead.

I want the best of all worlds:  An all-wheel drive, turbodiesel-electric hybrid with built-in digital music ports, built-in GPS, and a choice of body styles (including the roomy 5-door hatchback style which Americans seem to look down upon in favor of sedan or SUV).  Honda's failure to produce hatchbacks around 1999 and the high cost of hybrids at the time is what compelled me to look at the VW turbodiesel Golf, and once you go turbodiesel, you never go back.  Why no car manufacturer - not even VW - has combined turbodiesel with electric is beyond me.  I wish I could mix Subaru's AWD, Honda's transmission and hybrid electric technology, and VW's turbodiesel engine in some kind of Frankenstein dream car.

We need to get into the market FAST!  Stop allowing the arab community to hold us hostage with their oil.  Americans have had it pretty good over the years, but it is time to tighten the belt and show the world that we are STILL leaders.  The only way to bring the economy into the running is to have high mpg cars that are efficient in all ways.  My goodness Iran is smart enough to do it.  They hardly use any oil at all, but they are making TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS because Americans are not being logical.  WE are supporting terrorism in the world from the money being spent on oil.  Come on, stop and think now.......who is benefiting from the money from oil imports?  It is NOT US!

I wish that the government would push more for solar power also and make it affordable for people to put it in their homes.  I WOULD.  I would rather have solar power to run my house than electric from the "company".  Their is plenty of solar power that is untapped and unused.  WHY?  Why can't our government bring about GREEN for the people to enjoy.  Of course, that would probably put the rich electric companies out of business. Boo Hoo!

And where does this electricity come from?  Let's not come up with another half baked idea...

We want to kill the coal fired power plants because they pollute.  Hydroelectric harms the fish.  We use compact fluorescent bulbs, which bring Mercury into the home.  We want to save the Ozone with Hydrogen? Hydrogen leaks through steel. When you fillup, you can easily blow up.

Hydrogen spontaneously combines with Ozone in the presence of Ultraviolet light (like upper atmosphere).  I cannot imagine an easier way to kill the Ozone layer.  If you try this combination experiment at home, be prepared for a violent reaction. Not a detonation, but you can be killed.

So... don't believe the salesmen.  Become an engineer and find the facts about the "new" technologies.

Mahindra, the tractor manufaturer from India is planning a hybrid/diesel small pick-up for 2010 to be sold in the US.  Sounds fascinating, and just what I would need

Why is it, that none of the articles on electric cars this week has mentioned Phoenix Motors? They already have an SUV and 4-door truck that go 100 miles on a charge.

I live in Canada.  My next car has to have some form of combustion to generate heat for the car in winter.  An all electric car would probably work fine in summer but in winter it would get a couple of kilometers per charge using some form of heater.  I'm sure many North Eastern states have similar problems with all-electric cars.

I dont care about mpg or distance per charge, I am going to drive what I like and if it only gets 8 mpg so be it. I dont care .  I drive trucks and suv's so I have the towing hauling capacity, mpg is not an issue power and capacity are number one. I will never buy an electric or hybrid they would be usless to me and my family.

What are all these "hybrid crazed" idiots thinking about when it comes to safety??? I will NEVER put my beautiful granddaughter in such a small UNSAFE car!  I will pay $20 per gallon to drive my SUV or Mini Van with all it's airbags, etc.  And even the  so called "safety standards" for current cars are not strong enough in my opinion.  Maybe when they build separate roads for idiot drivers and big rigs!

I'm waiting for an electric small pickup. It would be cool if someone figured out how to simulate the sound of a V8 exhaust! Like a speaker where the tailpipe would be. The one thing I'll never give up though, is my gas powered Harley......it gets between 45 and 50 MPG anyway, so I don't feel too bad.

I'm looking at a Voltswagon Passat.  Small but roomy with a diesel engine.  I'd love to buy the Ford Focus diesel, but they don't sell it in the United States.

Equivelent road fuel tax for electric powered vehicles could be used to rebuild electric grid and pay costs to convert to clean coal.