12-19-2006, 03:12 AM
[quote spearmint]She drives fast and has for forty years. Why should she have to change for a hybrid? The savings were not supposed to be dependent on changing your driving habits.
All you said was:
"The mileage is 23-26 mpg a lot less than promised."
Think about this for a moment. I'll wait.
OK, so you still don't get it, do you. I'll go ahead and explain, and will attemp to do so in words you can understand.
On the one hand you are complaining that her car gets less than what is promised. But then you tell us that she drives like the gas pedal is an on/off switch, fast and jackrabbity and so on.
But--now here's where it gets tricky, hang on--the "promised" gas mileage is NOT derived from driving anywhere NEAR how she drives. So you CANNOT compare the "promised" gas mileage with what she gets in any way, shape, or form.
All you can do (still with me?) is compare what HER driving would give in a non-hybrid against what HER driving gives in a hybrid. Period.
I would expect that if the sticker mileage of a hybrid is 20% better (for example) than the sticker mileage of a non-hybrid of the same vehicle, then your sister's driving of a hybrid would give 20% better mileage than her driving of the same car in a non-hybrid form.
Are you still with me?
In other words, it was idiotic of you (and her, presumably) to look at the sticker mileage and assume she, with her driving habits, would achieve the sticker mileage.
You're right--you don't have to change your driving habits TO GET THE BENEFIT OF DRIVING A HYBRID. That is, she will get better mileage driving the hybrid than she will driving a non-hybrid.
Your stupid mistake was in assuming that YOUR SISTER with HER HORRIBLE DRIVING HABITS would EVER get the sticker-rated mileage.
Tell us again what your beef is? Oh, yes--you were complaining that physics works. Well, darn the universe.
All you said was:
"The mileage is 23-26 mpg a lot less than promised."
Think about this for a moment. I'll wait.
OK, so you still don't get it, do you. I'll go ahead and explain, and will attemp to do so in words you can understand.
On the one hand you are complaining that her car gets less than what is promised. But then you tell us that she drives like the gas pedal is an on/off switch, fast and jackrabbity and so on.
But--now here's where it gets tricky, hang on--the "promised" gas mileage is NOT derived from driving anywhere NEAR how she drives. So you CANNOT compare the "promised" gas mileage with what she gets in any way, shape, or form.
All you can do (still with me?) is compare what HER driving would give in a non-hybrid against what HER driving gives in a hybrid. Period.
I would expect that if the sticker mileage of a hybrid is 20% better (for example) than the sticker mileage of a non-hybrid of the same vehicle, then your sister's driving of a hybrid would give 20% better mileage than her driving of the same car in a non-hybrid form.
Are you still with me?
In other words, it was idiotic of you (and her, presumably) to look at the sticker mileage and assume she, with her driving habits, would achieve the sticker mileage.
You're right--you don't have to change your driving habits TO GET THE BENEFIT OF DRIVING A HYBRID. That is, she will get better mileage driving the hybrid than she will driving a non-hybrid.
Your stupid mistake was in assuming that YOUR SISTER with HER HORRIBLE DRIVING HABITS would EVER get the sticker-rated mileage.
Tell us again what your beef is? Oh, yes--you were complaining that physics works. Well, darn the universe.