A blind man can tell you that hybrids are dangerous.<\/p>\n
The National Federation of the Blind has complained to Ford, Honda and Toyota that their hybrid cars are so quiet that blind people can\u2019t hear them.\u00a0 Now, of the 4900 pedestrians killed by cars last year, exactly none were blind people killed by hybrids.\u00a0 But hybrid technology is extending to urban transport (Scania is testing hybrid buses in Stockholm) and overnight delivery (FedEx is testing delivery trucks in Denver).\u00a0 Something must be done to make these things louder; how long before someone gets hurt by this menace?<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s ethanol, which is proving to be a threat to the American way of life.\u00a0 Beginning this season, the IndyCar Series will race on 100 per cent ethanol. And the American LeMans Series will race on a 10 per cent ethanol blend.\u00a0 Even NASCAR is considering switching over.\u00a0 So what\u2019s wrong with that?\u00a0 \u00a0Some folks believe that, as the \u201ccorn basket to the world\u201d, the US can\u2019t grow enough corn to satisfy the need.\u00a0 Cattle ranchers, chicken farmers and pig producers have all testified that if ethanol production increases, they won\u2019t be able to feed their stocks.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness Congress has stepped in.\u00a0 House bills 161 and 587 aim to repeal tax incentives for producers of ethanol.\u00a0 If you are a \u201clarge\u201d producer of ethanol (sales of $1Million or more; ExxonMobil sales are $377Billion), don\u2019t expect any more handouts from Uncle Sam.\u00a0 Hopefully that will slow down this worrisome trend.<\/p>\n
Here at quickSilver, we\u2019re sticking with our good old Saab (27 MPG) and Land Rover (12 MPG).\u00a0 Honest American gas guzzlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blind man can tell you that hybrids are dangerous. The National Federation of the Blind has complained to Ford, Honda and Toyota that their hybrid cars are so quiet that blind people can\u2019t hear them.\u00a0 Now, of the 4900 pedestrians killed by cars last year, exactly none were blind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[282,403,411,447,587,602,1256],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-congress","tag-ethanol","tag-exxonmobil","tag-ford","tag-honda","tag-hybrid","tag-toyota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}