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How to Stop Tailgaters

How do you get people to stop tailgating you? (scroll down)
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Two words, on your back windshield ->
STUDENT DRIVER ;-)

Source: http://greenhybrid.com/discuss/f9/why-am-i-tailgated-so-often-18833/

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Hybrid Gas Guzzlers?

Originally Posted by New York Times
A gas guzzler, as defined by the Energy Tax Act of 1978, is a vehicle that gets a combined city and highway fuel economy of 22.5 miles a gallon or less, as calculated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sounds clear-cut. But as government regulations go, that’s never the case. Turns out, there are enough loopholes in the gas guzzler statute to drive a truck, a minivan, an S.U.V. and even a few hybrids right through it. {my emphasis added}
Source: Hybrid Tax Credits for S.U.V.’s? by Jerry Garrett, published online July 2, 2008, 3:44 pm.

How do *you* feel about some of the behemoth hybrids now being marketed, which do get better gas mileage than their non-hybrid brethren but still technically qualify as gas guzzlers? For example, both the 2008 GMC Yukon 1500 Hybrid 2WD and the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid 2WD, per FuelEconomy.gov, get an average fuel economy of just 21 MPG (21 city/22 highway). They may be hybrids, of a sort, but they fit the technical definition of gas guzzler.

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Twitter Needs a Massage!

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Hybrid Disinformation

My use of Twitter is casual, though I go through periods where I am quite active on it. Most notably, I’ve been using Twitter.com to share information about hybrids and counter disinformation about hybrids. My frequent hybrid-related tweets apparently annoy a vocal few who I guess followed me in the hopes I’d tweet about diapers, McDreamy or shopping (not that there’s anything wrong with these things, unless all three are in the same context! Ewww…)  Perhaps they missed the part of the definition of geek that grants we are sometimes annoying in our obsessive interest in technology or other arcana? They should be thrilled I’m at least not biting the head off a live chicken, right? (See definition again before calling 911 on me.)

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Want a Hybrid But Can’t Get One? Join the Club

Don’t give up, if you really have your sights set on one, however –

  • Some hybrids are starting to enter used car market (slowly) -> http://greenhybrid.com/disc… & http://tinyurl.com/3ua9×8
  • Sweeeet. A 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid *just like ours* got 15 bids & got up to $18k before the eBay auction ended. Didn’t meet reserve. Someone was trying to cash in! That’s well over what we still owe on ours. And ours has lower mileage. And no, we’re not selling.

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Are You Feeling Lucky?

Sorry for the continued lack of substantive blog entries. I’ll get a grip on posting updates again at some point. In the meantime, here’s a video montage of some VERY LUCKY PEOPLE!

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