Runners, do we still hate Priuses (aka Prii)?

I don't like them because they're bad for the environment.

As I understand it there are studies that indicate hybrids are more likely to be involved in pedestrian or cyclist collisions, but that they have a significantly lower rate of occupant injury than non-hybrids. The former is presumably because they are more quiet at low speeds and the latter because they tend to be driven less aggressively.

Inside every Prius there's a hypocritical liberal.

All hybrids now have a noise maker that comes on when they are driving on battery at very slow speeds.

Just noticed that this morning. I was running up to a Prius as it was pulling out of a driveway, and I could hear an engine sound coming from the car. Unlike the redneck in the pickup truck that tried to hit me a few blocks back, the Prius stopped and let me pass.

The only thing I don't like about all the new hybrids is that my kids will never get to have the kind of fun in a car that I had.

Tell me, how can you go tear up a field with a fwd hybrid? My rwd V8 1985 Caprice Classic ripped up fields and vacant lots far and wide. Oh what fun we had. hahahah

9999999 wrote:

I don't like them because they're bad for the environment.

Still spreading that one, eh?

The Prius is an all-around terrible car. Driving on electric produces more carbon emissions than a 25 mpg car. And yet liberals praise the guy who drives his hybrid 20 miles to work over the guy who drives his gasoline car 5 miles... or the one who walks. Go green!

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

The Prius is an all-around terrible car. Driving on electric produces more carbon emissions than a 25 mpg car. And yet liberals praise the guy who drives his hybrid 20 miles to work over the guy who drives his gasoline car 5 miles... or the one who walks. Go green!

Dude, you are the one with "the mental disorder."

A noise maker? Seriously?

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

The Prius is an all-around terrible car. Driving on electric produces more carbon emissions than a 25 mpg car. And yet liberals praise the guy who drives his hybrid 20 miles to work over the guy who drives his gasoline car 5 miles... or the one who walks. Go green!

How can an electric motor produce more carbon emissions than a hydrocarbon engine?

I am an engineer and I'd like to hear a technical explanation and not something you heard a fat blowhard behind a golden microphone say.

I gotzzz a 5 speed V-8. O-Yaaaaa

Those of us who run on roads thank you!

Formula One drivers still seem to have fun in their hybrids.

science is not your friend wrote:

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

The Prius is an all-around terrible car. Driving on electric produces more carbon emissions than a 25 mpg car. And yet liberals praise the guy who drives his hybrid 20 miles to work over the guy who drives his gasoline car 5 miles... or the one who walks. Go green!

How can an electric motor produce more carbon emissions than a hydrocarbon engine?

I am an engineer and I'd like to hear a technical explanation and not something you heard a fat blowhard behind a golden microphone say.

i'll preface my quotes first: I work for the largest EV manufacturer in the world, and am still not convinced of man-made climate change. and yes, it's true that EV's + hybrids actually cause more harm to the environment when compared to traditional ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles.

"According to an in-depth study by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, hybrid cars do, in fact, require more energy to produce than conventional cars, emitting more greenhouse gases and burning more fossil fuels during the manufacturing process. The production of hybrid batteries, in particular, requires much more energy than producing a standard car battery and results in higher emission levels of gases like sulfur oxide [source: Burnham et al]." read more here:

and he's right: liberalism is likely a mental disorder. The Left destroys EVERYTHING it touches. The Left has been in charge of California's education for 50 years, and California went from being #1 in the US to #49/50. that's just one example.

That page says nothing about the emissions produced while driving. More importantly, it completely ignores the overall emissions produced over the life of the vehicle. Sounds like you were a victim of the California public education system.

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

The Prius is an all-around terrible car. Driving on electric produces more carbon emissions than a 25 mpg car. And yet liberals praise the guy who drives his hybrid 20 miles to work over the guy who drives his gasoline car 5 miles... or the one who walks. Go green!

How you equated this statement with the energy needed to manufacture a vehicle is beyond me.

your cousin marvin berry wrote:

and he's right: liberalism is likely a mental disorder. The Left destroys EVERYTHING it touches. The Left has been in charge of California's education for 50 years, and California went from being #1 in the US to #49/50. that's just one example.

California is currently #2 according to US News

There also seems to be an awful lot of red states on the bottom of this list too.

V1per41 wrote:

your cousin marvin berry wrote:

and he's right: liberalism is likely a mental disorder. The Left destroys EVERYTHING it touches. The Left has been in charge of California's education for 50 years, and California went from being #1 in the US to #49/50. that's just one example.

California is currently #2 according to US News

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-states-compare

There also seems to be an awful lot of red states on the bottom of this list too.

Naaah that's just a liberal media outlet making seeming objective rankings that put CA #2 in the country because they need CA to love them so much.

Also, all of the best universities are in the red states like . . . ehhh . . . where did Dubya go?

Oh yeah, nevermind