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By: ste!!a
14-08-2008
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Hybrid Taxi’s : Why aren’t all cabs hybrids?


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I’m try­ing to under­stand this. Cabs drive around in cir­cles all day. Round about here, round about there. Why are they run­ning on gaso­line? Why haven’t all cities man­dated hybrid or elec­tric cars for this pur­pose? Or bet­ter yet; recon­sti­tute an old way that was pretty darn smart?

It’s all about dol­lars and cents and mak­ing money in a business.

Taxi Dri­vers Seek Fuel Sur­charge
By Sewell Chan
Com­plain­ing that soar­ing gaso­line prices have made it barely pos­si­ble for them to scrape by, about 17 dri­vers held a rally on Mon­day after­noon out­side the Lower Man­hat­tan head­quar­ters of the city’s Taxi and Lim­ou­sine Com­mis­sion, demand­ing that the panel impose a fuel surcharge.

Taxi Dri­vers Seek Fuel Sur­charge — City Room — Metro — New York Times Blog

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  • Michael Nolan

    It sure would help the air.

    Hard as it may be to believe, there’s some ques­tion as to whether hybrids are more “green” than non-hybrids. Toy­ota Prius bat­tery packs only last about 100K miles, and then the car is prac­ti­cally use­less because replace­ments are so expen­sive, so the man­u­fac­tur­ing life of it is short. (A Hum­mer might last twice that long.) And dis­posal of the old bat­ter­ies? Don’t even ask. It pisses me off so much when there are no easy answers.

  • http://www.stellarvisions.com ste!!a

    Green… green is another story. I was just talk­ing about try­ing to reduce the cur­rent state of emis­sions and use or petrochemicals.

    Green is walk­ing.
    Move to a city or small town and walk every­where you go or if you have to a streetcar.

    Per­sonal devices to get you from one place to another all take fuel and some pretty nasty man­u­fac­tur­ing. Even bicycles.

    I have watched it become accept­able to talk about unac­cept­able AIR QUALITY.

    We work toward or own extinction.

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