I saw an article in the Arizona Republic on Wednesday August 5th, that I couldn't believe. It seems that there are 19 Prius owners who work for the Arizona Republic. They organized an unofficial mileageathon. The course was 19 miles long. As an occasional Prius driver, my wife has one< yu tend to get an attitude about driving. A little slow on the takeoff, gradually slowing down so you can roll up to the traffic signal so you don't stop completely. Just doing everything to maximize the number on your real time mileage per gallon computer. The winner of this race, the one with the highest MPG got 70.6 MPG. The 2nd place got 61.7 I know someone who regularly gets around 50MPG on his commute from Mesa to Phoenix with 4 people in the car. My wife and I don't get that many miles per gallon, but she is using about half the fuel she used in her previous SUV.
The course that we have to follow is to get the best mileage possible out of hte cars we drive and to find another way to fuel these cars. When we think of the billions of gallons of oil we use in this country, an interesting fact to consider is that less than 50 % of the oil we use actually goes into cars. The rest is used in plastics and other industrial uses.
Very soon there will be a movement of people using electricity, hydrogen and other fuels to power the cars. I even hears of one that runs on compressed air. What the mind can concieve, it can usually achieve.
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