From: "Robert Comer" 

> (btw, in another message, Robert Comer asked about driving alongside the
big
> SUVs.  If your commute is like most around here, you're driving so slowly
> the size of the vehicle next to you is almost irrelevant.)

My commute is definitely fast enough for those SUV's to pose a problem...
(avg about 60MPH.)

- Bob Comer


"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:404cc328$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> What's your electric bill like?
>
> I'm asking because many ... quite a lot of "many's" ...
years ago there
was
> an attempt to move people off oil on to electric.  "House of the
future"
and
> all that.  The only way it made economic sense was to provide electricity
to
> the final consumer at commercial (not residential) rates.
>
> So ... I'm seriously interested in hearing about your electric bill and,
to
> put things in perspective, what do you pay for electricity?
>
> (btw, in another message, Robert Comer asked about driving alongside the
big
> SUVs.  If your commute is like most around here, you're driving so slowly
> the size of the vehicle next to you is almost irrelevant.)
>
>
>
> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:opr4j2xhd68gsp74{at}news.barkto.com...
> > On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:19:43 -0500, Steve Ewing
 wrote:
> >
> >
> > A few weeks ago I finally replaced by '90 Civic with 351,500 miles on it
> > with a Honda Insight hybrid gas-electric.  I'm getting mpgs in the mid
> > sixties.  With the commute between Bennington, VT and Clifton Park, NY
> it's
> > making QUITE a difference.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Wiltshire
>
>

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