Are you glad you have a PRIUS=The way Gasoline prices are going UP & UP

i'm just glad i have a prius, best car ever. and plug-in is icing on the cake

 

8.5 years of ownership and counting! Bought at about 54,500 miles and presently at 136,800+ miles.

Saved approximately £1,000 in fuel bills per year in the UK, compared to owning a conventional ICE vehicle of similar vintage .

Yup! I’m absolutely delighted that I own a Prius II.
Funnily enough, after years of Prii being the centre of your average auto-enthusiast Troll’s attention, now there are SO MANY HYBRIDS of different manufacturers on UK roads - and don’t even get me started on the proliferation of EVs around here.

So, now everyone realises the Prius WAS an incredibly fantastic idea all along! A lot of manufacturers are copying it - or at least trying to.

The prices have been climbing already, and in the UK nobody is happy with the newly forced upon us “E10” fuel (which is resulting in less than sterling MPG) but I’m glad I’ve still got “The Spaceship”……bring on the price rises - we’re still better off.

Prices are now predicted to hit £2.00 a litre in the UK due to the conflict in Ukraine (any excuse to squeeze us till the pips squeak).
Bring it on…!!!


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2005 Prius with code p0401 01/01
I can find solution online as there isn’t any info on this model. I was informed there isn’tan egr on this gen 2 so what does code mean

 

I think a bunch of plug-in people are even happier. I'd have joined them already if not for the supply shortage.

But gas prices are still down from the $4.50 prices in 2008 that finally pushed me to getting a Prius. Unfortunately this chart doesn't go back that far:

 

Like others, I've been glad to have a Prius ever since we bought two of them in 2014. Besides being almost perfectly reliable, they are reasonably comfortable. And the Prime I drive now that I got three years ago is VERY comfortable. I got it used and now it's over 60k miles. No repairs; just regular maintenance. To top it off, in 35,504 miles of driving as of my last gas purchase, I've spent $1,080 on gas and electricity. The same miles in a 28 mpg gasser would have been about $3,465 at the gas prices I paid when I had to buy gas.

 

In 2008, I was in Southern California, driving 175 miles each way, twice a week, for medical treatment. I was reimbursed for the fuel cost. The thing I remember most vividly was that freeway traffic became relatively thin, and people were actually driving 55 on the 70 MPH freeway. In early 2009, I retired and moved to New Hampshire. When I was settled-in, I took my rust-free 4x4 Tundra down to the Toyota dealer and traded it for a 2010 Prius II. That was traded a couple years later for a 2012 Prius V (five) which we loved, but sold it to meet the needs of our growing kids. Now we have two Prius in the garage. It’s never really been about saving the planet. It’s about the smartest way to build a car. For a gasoline-powered car, I think the Prius is the most intelligent design in the history of cars. It just seems right.

 

My 2021 PP is performing the best among all the hybrid cars I have owned in the last ~10 years, at an average efficiency of 65mpg on HV mode. But with the highest average gas cost at $3.12/gal so far in the last 7 mo, the average fuel cost (gas only) is the highest among the 4 Prius I have owned. Am thinking of buying either Rav4Prime or a BEV... but either one is not likely to beat the cost efficiency of the PP at our current gas and electricity cost.

 

My Prius has been great so far: consistent and reliable and economical

 

otoh, gas has only gone up 10 cents here. more to come so they say

 

My 2020 Prime has been flawless. All my driving lately has been local, so most times EV mode covers my needs. Back to garage, and 2 hrs, 15 minutes max (240v) and I'm good-to-go.

 

Gas will hit $6.50 a gallon in the US. Within 15 months….. yeahhhhhh WAR.

 

Yes, traffic both thinned and slowed. Except that a very noticeable number of Prii were speeding, flagrantly flaunting their superior fuel efficiency. That was when the relative Prius advantage over regular vehicles was much larger than now, as traditional vehicles were just barely coming off a horsepower war in which fewer customers cared about MPG. That was just beginning to change following the sharply rising gas prices that started with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Car makers had just barely started to respond with more efficient designs.

I have to point to today's still increasing traffic speeds as solid proof that fuel prices are NOT too high. We'll know that prices are getting high when traffic speeds noticeably decrease.

 

no one is batting an eyelash. the days of news media interviewing people at the pump during price increases are over. ((nothing to see here, move along)

i doubt joe will let prices go too high, i see some calls for a suspension of gas taxes already.

 

Joe is the reason gas prices are so high. He made sure that would happen his first day in office.

Let go Brandon.

 

Are you saying that without Biden, the Pandemic recession would have continued?

 

It has nothing to do with the pandemic. In his first day in office he canceled the Keystone pipeline. Then he halted exploration for oil and natural gas on federal land, placed restrictions on coal mining and coal fired electricity generation, placed restrictions on natural gas electricity generation, restricted shale and fracking. There is more but I won't belabor the point.

We very quickly, within months, went from energy independence to dependence on other countries for oil. We are no longer the biggest exporter of oil like we were and can't make enough energy for our own use. We are now dependent on the Saudis and others to get enough energy resources we need and as a result are being raked over the coals with oil prices. Don't you remember just last month Joe begging the Saudis to increase production so we can get the oil we need at more reasonable prices as pump prices in the US skyrocketed? And this was all planned before he became president, and he was open about that while campaigning.

Being energy independent and the largest exporter of oil allowed us, the US, to determine energy prices worldwide and keep it at a reasonable level. We freely gave that up and are now living the consequences. It didn't need to be this way.

I am absolutely for alternative anergy sources like solar and wind, but it is currently not good enough to replace the energy sources we already had. A better move would have been to keep increasing alternative energy sources and increase the technology until it is good enough without affecting our ability to meet our day to day needs. We are not even close to that goal yet. We don't even have enough charging stations to make pure electric vehicles a viable option for a huge amount of people. So we didn't even build out the infrastructure to make electric vehicles a viable option. But we went ahead and insisted it was the future... but unfortunately, it's not the here and now even though the current administration pretends it is.

Being Prius owners, we can see this firsthand. The marrying of electric power and dino power was a solution that allowed a viable method of using less gas but provide a useful platform to continue driving. It changed the playing field in a dramatic way and at least gave a solution that makes headway every year towards the goal of reduced fuel consumption without sacrificing quality of life. Every Prius owner knows this from experience, not propaganda that everything's OK despite the reality that it is not.

Sorry for the rant all.

Let go Brandon

 

oe's a cagey politician, and a compromiser. he'll do what it takes to keep the economy afloat and inflation down.
releasing oil reserves is not an environmental tragedy afaik

 

I named my 2004 Prius "MakeMeLookSmart" when gasoline prices were high years ago. For a while when gasoline prices dropped, my savings were diminished, but now I am saving money again . I always said, "My car gets twice the MPG than yours, but I make up for it by driving twice as much."

JeffD