At 11:42 PM Monday 1/5/2009, Bruce Bostwick wrote: >The demand is there, make no mistake about it. As soon as a 100-mile- >range battery powered car is available, there are plenty of people
Although there are still plenty of people who live in places like the Western US where there is nothing but empty desert and sagebrush within a 100-mile radius of where they live. >[ ] > >The Prius isn't quite what it could be. In a plug-chargeable >configuration (which is sold, and legal, everywhere but the USA -- >ever notice that blank spot in the row of buttons on the dash? That's where some of those who live in those big blank spaces out West put the switch for the after-market driving lights which are needed when driving on some of those long uninterrupted stretches of road to avoid becoming one with some of the nocturnal desert fauna, and which use a fair amount of electricity when on. Point being, as has been mentioned previously, there are some parts of the US at least where a vehicle such as described will not serve the need, or where one with those limitations might be enough for some trips but for which at least weekly or monthly frex something with a much longer potential range is needed. It's similar to when the Segway was introduced: except in perhaps NYC and DC where some people who live in the city are able to do entirely without automobiles most of us in the US at least fairly regularly need something which goes faster than 12 mph and further than a few miles, is weatherproof, and can carry (often multiple) children and cargo (like a week's groceries for the family and/or the kid's school and sports equipment), and can't afford $5K for an additional vehicle with those limitations which would make it useless for their purposes much of the time. >"When you mention that we want five debates, say what they are: one on >the economy, one on foreign policy, with another on global threats and >national security, one on the environment, and one on strengthening >family life, which would include health care, education, and >retirement. I also think there should be one on parts of speech and >sentence structure. And one on fractions." -- Toby Ziegler I doubt I am alone in thinking that the latter two should be mandatory for everyone entering public service before they are allowed to do anything else. (And I realize that it is a quote from a fictional character. Doesn't mean there's no truth in it. . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
