Gouged

[zena]

Hmm...I guess I blew my carbon footprint last week. Bought a Charger. Hemi, 5.7, 372 horsepower from an engine that sounds like a car should.

Personally if you can afford it drive it. For my family we need bigger just to haul all the kids stuff around!

John

Oooh! A Charger! How cool. The Rover was in for repairs last week (shocking!) and I tried to rent a Charger for the weekend but it was out. Drat! Have some fun for me.

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Jeep45238: Good stuff. I disagree with the hydrogen thing, although I'm not up to date
on it. Takes copious amounts of electrical energy to convert water to hydrogen, not sure that's feasible on a per-car basis. Haven't seen performance data on that guy's
H car.
There was a study done on hydrogen storage in vehicles, a hydride of some sort in a
pressure tank was the way to go. When heated (more electricity) the hydride would
release the hydrogen slowly. They shot these tanks with a rifle, no explosion, just a
jet of flame from the hole. Was expensive equipment.

My wife's GM 3/4 ton 454 is doing about 10 mpg, gas here (Denver metro) running
around $2.50, expensive commute BUT it can haul a ton of pellets for our heater!