Seriously. Prius drivers what is wrong with you guys?

ninous26,
take the gun out of your mouth and remove the bullet from the chamber...go to bed and dream about a road filled with Prius doing the speed limit and no tailgating.....do scientologists drive Prius too?

 

Ninous26:

While I don't feel it is fair to generalize like you did about Prius drivers, I do think there is some validity to your gripe. I admit, my own driving habits have changed dramatically since buying my Prius. Yes, I do drive slower in my Prius because 1) Now that I own a Prius, for some strange reason I am obsessed with getting gas mileage greater than 45 mpg. 2) I just love driving my Prius. However, I never drive at a speed that impedes traffic and am very cognizant of drivers in a hurry.

The reason why you don't understand why "millionaires are driving this car" is, because you have never driven a Prius yourself. It is not a fad, it is a really cool car. To own and drive a Prius, is to love a Prius. I know this sounds really corny, but this is how I feel. For the record, when I bought my Prius, I had no idea this would be the case. I just wanted to buy the car that got the best gas mileage. Now here I am, two months later, reading and writing on Prius Chat everyday, because I like to be around other Prius owners who understand the mindset of being a Prius owner.

You might not be suffering from Prius envy, however, you should rent one sometime and maybe you will understand us a little bit better.

 

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btw why is this thread still alive? close it and ban him already..
the more u guys aruge, the more fun he has
:ban: :lock1:

 

I hoped you'd see the link.

I used to hang out there looking for info on my old alcohol injection setup on my GMC. My buddy Chris Chow showed me the site. Man, this brings back memories. lol

I'm sure the thread lock is on it's way. This will be my last post in here.

 

This must be where the Rodney King picture goes......

"Can't we all just get along?"

 

yea i checked that out. GNXs r badass.. i'm into turbos too as u can see in my sig . but its hard to find any article regarding the new lucerne or lacrosse or le sabre.. haha j/k

 

There is no forum for those cars because their owners have not found the Internet yet. They should have a conversation with Al Gore.

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Mink, you messed up my keyboard! Thats what I get for sipping a soda around you I guess! +100000000

 

Niino son,

Did I upset you with the pizza hut crack? sorry son, maybe I should have just told folks you are a drug dealer and use childrens lunch money to buy your gas.

I live in Central FL and you are very welcome to visit me if you'd like. Ill even meet you and call you a troll to your face.

 

Hi ninous...,

Well, its very rare to be able to roll the lights, like was much more easy back 30 years ago, in the example I gave. But hang time at the light can still be dramatically reduced. And that means the amount of accelleration gas used is dramatically less in a standard car, and the amount of engine idle time in a Prius is extra dramatically reduced. That is because the Prius engine is off when your below 40, and with your foot pressed just the right amount on the accellerator. So, for that 1/2 mile out from a red light, the Prius is not using gas, just rolling along.

Still, it does happen. There is one place on my way home I usually roll the right turn light. Did not happen tonite. There was some women in a SUV with Illinois plates, indicated with a US. I believe that means the vehicle is licensed to a member of congress. She bullied her way until she was in front of slow panel truck, which slowed it down. Then a super sized dump truck cut the panel truck off merging onto the road from an off ramp, rather than waiting for the slug of traffic to clear, because of the gap the SUV caused. Consequently, the timing was all screwed up. When we got to the light, the right turn lane was blocked by a right turning Green Mazda MX-5 mini van about 2 cars behind the pannel truck, which was the lead vehicle at the red light. The MX-5 that could of gotten past a roadside marker into the right turn lane, but chose not to for 2 minutes. He eventually went well before the light went green due to some prodding from the SUV behind him blowing his horn. I did not even have to slow down through the gap that was there, nor did the SUV. But, on average, one gets allot better statistics on the amount of stopped time one has. This is the first time I have been stopped at that light this month. If I would go the speed limit, I would come into a line of cars stopped at the light for about a minute, rather than rolling it through. I also was experimenting with SHM at a dead even 43 mph, rather than doing a slower pulse and glide on that road (Speed limit is 45 there) and the battery was high enough to go into SHM. That screwed up the timing into the light before. So I did not slow anybody down even at 2 mph below the limit, and I usually hit that light before with an average speed of 38 mph. So even at 38 mph, in a 45, I am not slowing anybody down, the people stopped at the light are.

I guess the point of the past paragraph is that cooperative driving is more efficient in daily commuting than competitive, temper driven, I am an important congres persion/relative driving.

 

Sheesh, tough crowd here. I'm a Prius driver and have the same complaints of fellow Prius drivers and even started a thread called "Rude Prius Drivers". Does that make me a troll for having the same observations? There are slow drivers of all ilk and cars because they're just slow. However, those that are trying to milk every mpg as if it were a game without regard to those around you, well, that's just rude.

 

I applaud you. Couldn't have said it better.
And I called it from the get-go. He want's a Prius. Every notice when you get interested in a car you see them everywhere.........

 

Ummm, sorry I'm new to all of this... but which stations/companies are those? I really just would like to know....

 

He was being sarcastic. :usa2:

 

ok, thanks, because I had never heard of that.... :redface:

this is what I thought.....
...."MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION:
I want to buy my gas from companies that don't import from the Middle East. Which ones are they?
Answer: There are essentially NO major-brand retail gas stations whose product derives from US sources only, and basically all of them have Middle East oil as a significant proportion of their source crude - because if refineries used only American oil, they would be incapable of making the volumes that we demand - a 60% shortfall. A few small regional refiner-producers may use MOSTLY American oil, but even they likely use purchased oil - with imported origins - to produce the volumes of gasoline that are demanded by the American public. In addition to all the crude imported, the U.S. must import about 66 million gallons of refined gasoline because our refineries can't make enough"....

sigh...

 

as a speeding prius guy... and sometimes a very mild driver who likes to help keep traffic in pace..

shut up.. and take it like a man.. then get the hell out of the way.. ty.

 

I think its even worse than that. Regardless of what brand of gas you are buying, it all usually comes from a single regional distributor. The only thing that makes it Shell or Chevron or anything else is what flavor packet they drop into the tanker truck before it goes off to the station. You really have no idea where it came from.

Rob

 

sorry, i frequent other boards where my foul little mouth is comparatively clean to everyone else.

try putting the keyboard in the dishwasher. just be sure to unplug it from the computer first :high5:

 

FWIW I see a lot of rude drivers on a daily basis, and have never noticed any disproportionate number of rude Prii. I think we see what we are looking for. If you are annoyed that Prius owners are spending 2-4 times less money at the pump that you are, and/or are secretly feeling a little guilty about your much larger contribution to global climate change, water shortages, reduced air quality, increasing childhood respiratory disorders, higher gas prices, deaths of civilians and soldiers in Iraq, global terror, rising food prices and the spread of hunger and starvation associated you tend to find reasons to dislike them.

opcorn:

Rob

 

BTW, pretty much all of Phoenix's gasoline arrives via a single pipeline from Texas. The brand of gas is determined by what flavor pack they drop in the tanker before they bring it to the station. If you are lucky that gasoline might be 40% domestic, 60% imported. More likely its 20% domestic. If you have worked out a procedure for separating the two I would be very interested in the details.

I have never seen a Prius driver in Phoenix doing anything that looked like mileage experimenting. Some drive fast, some drive slow. Some are assholes, some talk on the phone and some think I-10 is an extension of Phoenix International Raceway. In other words they drive just like everyone else. If you got stuck behind me doing only 60 in a 55 in the right or middle lane I'm very sorry for the grave injury I have caused you.

As to the point about not running out of gas, wiki would beg to differ (and I hope you are not going to doubt Lord Wiki.)
Oil reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


If you would like to extend the graph at home the latest numbers are 20.9 million barrels/day consumed, 4.9 million barrels per day produces, 16 million barrels per day imported. With our 20B barrel proven reserves, plus another 7.7B in the ANWR we could last about 3.5 years if we stopped importing today (and stopped growing consumption). Now that virtually every other oil producing nation in the world has also peaked, and demand is increasing rapidly, things are going to get interesting. BTW the source of the graph is that widely known liberal media outlet the US Department of Energy.

Hmmm, looks like a troll, smells like a troll, acts like a troll, and yet claims not to be a troll. Trolls never think to claim that they are not a troll, so I guess this cannot be a troll

Rob