Freaky Gear: SMART Hybrid

[The Dong]

Tony Scharf wrote:
> The new Prius gets 60m/g I here.  Tempting with gas prices starting to
> inch up to $5.00 per gallon.

Huh?
A friend drives an older model, cheapo basic diesel family car and gets 
about 60-70mpg. It has a gauge for mpg constantly updated so you can 
experiment and adjust your driving to save fuel as you desire.

$5 = £2.50

A gallon = 4.55 litres

In Uk, petrol (diesel is more expensive) is about £1.30 or so per litre.
(creeping higher as I type. Some remote areas in Scotland are far more 
expensive than London and other areas around England)

Which is £5.92 per gallon.
So, about $11.84 per gallon!!!
You have to be disgustingly rich to own many gas guzzlers here.

The most ludicrous irony, which my mother doesn't understand and still 
believes Scotland survives only on England subsidies, is that Scotland 
produces 10x the fossil fuels that it consumes. Yet we are the only 
excess producer of energy on the planet that does not have any consumer 
benefits from the industry. Don't mention the Barnett formula, that's 
just a London in-joke ;)