"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Fred Dehl" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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Are you the same Fred Dehl who suggested that ANWR, a tiny incremental
step, would be better than nothing?

You're the only one who's suggested ANWR is a "tiny incremental step".
It's far more than that.

Use numbers. What percentage is, or is not incremental, in your opinion?

Until they started drilling in the Arabian Pennisula the didn't think
there was any oil.


And yes, one new vehicle could make a difference. Ford & GM didn't
take the idea of mini-vans

Mini-vans are loathed by your ilk.

Not relevant to this discussion. This is about marketing a product, not
my opinion of certain vehicles.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/suvs/

Ford Escape $19,995 (Base price)

Ford Escape Hybrid $27,515 (Base price)

That is a $7,520 dollar difference which translates into 3,008 gallons of
gas at the average price in the DC area today of $2.50 per gallon. At 25
MPG that would mean that I could drive my non-Hybrid Escape 75,000 miles
before I reach the acquisition cost of the Escape Hybrid.

You tell me which one you would buy?

seriously until Chrysler started selling
them like hotcakes. One highly efficient SUV that's successful will
lead the competition into the same market.

The cost of operating these SUVs is little different from operating a
gas
one.

I'll need a link for your source of that information. Good luck. The
vehicles don't exist yet.

The battery life of an Hybrid is estimated to be 100,000 miles. With a
projected cost of $5,000 to replace the batteries you have removed this
vehicle form the used vehicle market making them even less desirable to
acquire in the first place. When the salesman asks you if you are trading
something in and you say a Hybrid and he says we don't take those in trade
what are you going to do?

Beats me. I don't care. I'd never buy that type of vehicle, regardless of
how it was powered.