Comments on: MD158 – Gas Prices: Increasing your Mileage, and Hummer vs. Prius

By: Lapel Pins

Lapel Pins — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:21:56 +0000

Great article – btw gotta love those smart cars.. the things only get 41mpg, and to me they seem dangerous. Imagine getting t-boned by a bicycle…that would hurt!

By: LemonFree

LemonFree — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:37:10 +0000

This story is funny because here we are not even a year later and the game has completely changed. Gas is no longer $4/barrel and truck and suv sales are rising once again.

I think people need to start looking a little further into the future and realize that gas prices are going to climb back up over the next few years as the financial crisis bottoms and the economy stabilizes.

We may have slowed down our oil consumption but we are a long way away from reducing it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:12:24 +0000

When gas prices going up best option is to buy smaller cars, and if you have SUV car you must replace it faster you can because it can be very bad thing for your budget, sometimes smaller is better then big one.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:03:11 +0000

It is true that the gas prices have jumped so much; It is worrying for people, but also for yhe economy market; This think
could destabilize the world economy.

By: usedcars

usedcars — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:28:08 +0000

The petrol price exploded , that’s my big pain … So we all have to leave up to performante cars and to choose cars with small engine .
I like the idea of Toyota , Prius model . An hybrid engine , with a small average that offers you performance , confort and quality to a good price . But , I have tot dezagreed all Hummer models with big engines , big prices . These models eat properly gas .
So , cars like Smart , Vw Polo , Peugeot 1007 , Citroen C3 deserve our attention .

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:57:29 +0000

There is a really simple solution to gas prices, and the major car companies are finally starting the ball rolling. The answer = Hydrogen on Demand. Ford, BMW, Honda, and More are already rolling these out, but wait who wants to spend another $21,000. I want to drive my hummer and my mustang. And now I can. I got a easy to install Hydrogen On Demand Fuel kit from PASS, check out their website, it installed in an hour, and was 1/3 the cost of other HHO hydrogen on demand systems. I now am getting 42% better gas mileage in my hummer, and 38% more MPG in my mustang. See thier website. http://www.passonfuel.com

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:40:01 +0000

In Denmark, and most of nothern Europe prices are $2.40/litre which is more than $9/gallon

Woo, my bank account is going to love so much going to america this fall :P

By: Roeurn

Roeurn — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:18:34 +0000

Did anyone else notice that ill-informed sticker at 1 min 28-29 seconds. “Warning turn off cellular phone” WTF? Bad science and urban myths are now making their way to gas station warnings?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:22:17 +0000

The Prius is great if you want to save a few dollars. But it’s really not good for the environment because of all the pollution it took to make the 30lbs of Nickel for the battery.

Pound for pound, making a Prius contributes more carbon to the atmosphere than making a Hummer, largely due to the environmental cost of the 30 pounds of nickel in the hybrid’s battery. Of course, the hybrid quickly erases that carbon deficit on the road, thanks to its vastly superior fuel economy. Still, the comparison suggests a more sensible question. If a new Prius were placed head-to-head with a used car, would the Prius win? Don’t bet on it. Making a Prius consumes 113 million BTUs, according to sustainability engineer Pablo Päster. A single gallon of gas contains about 113,000 Btus, so Toyota’s green wonder guzzles the equivalent of 1,000 gallons before it clocks its first mile. A used car, on the other hand, starts with a significant advantage: The first owner has already paid off its carbon debt. Buy a decade-old Toyota Tercel, which gets a respectable 35 mpg, and the Prius will have to drive 100,000 miles to catch up

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:49:44 +0000

@ non-US citizens:
It’s true that cost of gas in the US is still a LOT cheaper than it is in many other countries, but the problem is in 1) our lifestyle, and 2) the rapid increase that we’ve seen.

Gas has increased roughly 100% over the past year, doubling the amount of money we’ve been used to spending. People who have tight budgets suddenly have more money going into transportation than they are used to. Also, Living near big cities, the standard has been for people to live within 30-50 miles of their place of the city and then commute every day. The cost of driving to work doubles, and many States don’t have good public inter-city transport.

Also, my understanding is that most European cities were developed before cars, so they aren’t nearly as car-centric as American cities are.