My appologies to Charles

jeez.. still 63.. it's 34 right now where I am.

good job!

Post it in the I Beat The EPA Thread!

 

I was thinking about this back-n-forth on my way home last night. A couple of things crossed my mind.

First, Ken in Japan linked to a website in which a girl posted a picture of her Prius MFD showing more than 1,100 miles. It was in Km in the picture, but people did the math and no one argued.

Secondly, I know a guy who lives about 2.3 miles from my house. We experience the same weather, the same traffic flows, and attend many of the same hybrid meet-ups. We both have about 50 MPG lifetime average in our cars. The difference: I drive a Toyota Prius and Wayne Gertes drives a 6-cylinder Honda Accord.

Wayne and Tom B. started a website for Hypermilers called http://www.CleanMPG.com. The difference is that on that forum, no one doubts claims like this because on that forum, most people are achieving the same results. And some Hypermilers are doing it with Saturn L-Series and Ford Trucks and other non-hybrids.

 

I can't even tell you how much this bothers me. Charles apologized publicly, but it turns out that HE is the liar here...he didn't feel bad. He told me that he hadn't been feeling well and thus his ill humor in his first post calling Chris a troll and a liar. He was simply blowing smoke up my butt too, obviously.

The lesson here is clear. If Charles chooses not to believe you for whatever imaginary reasons he gets in his head then no amount of proof, logic or explaination will alter that self-rightous conviction in his mind. His self-rightousness, I agree, is evident in his sig....there are those who follow "His" rules who he'll read. Those who don't conform to his fanciful ideal are not worthy of his respect. I think it's very clear who's not worthy of respect here.

My 70+ mpg segments must also be lies...b/c Charles can't get them. The 1400 mile marathon is, like the moon landing, a fiction. The innumerable folk getting 60-70 mpg regularly are all in cahoots and working their Photoshop programs overtime creating these fake photos of the MFD.

I'm sad that one of our long time members has chosen to make himself such a sad example of a Priuschat member.