Hybrid Cars and Fuel Efficiency
One of the beautifies of being a blogger and being an owner of the web site on which the blog is published is that you have a lot more flexibility about what you write than you would if you worked for a major daily newspaper and had editors looking over your shoulder every minute of the day. Of course, the content those publications put out is slightly better than what I generate.
I just got off of a phone meeting where we were discussing sales strategies and one of the clients that came up was a large energy company. For those who have been holed up in a cave for the past couple of years, energy prices are, ahem, somewhat higher than they were. And the profits and hiring by those same energy companies are also higher. Yet the energy company that we discussed was only interested in using our killer cell phone text messaging (SMS) product to help them hire college students and recent graduates if the price was $100 or less. Ain't going to happen.
I wish no ill will upon the energy company. I hope that they make a successful transformation from selling fossil fuels to selling renewable energy and perhaps even promoting energy efficiency and conservation. Whether they can or will remains to be seen, but wouldn't that a great thing?
I guess in the meantime I'll continue to keep my eyes open when I see energy efficient hybrid cars drive by. One of my family's cars isn't fancy and definitely isn't expensive, but boy am I happy that we decided not to trade it in. You see, we have a 2001 Hyundai Accent. Its low sticker price and small interior are very consistent with its energy efficiency. It gets well over 30 miles per gallon. People who drive hybrid cars brag about the miles per gallon they get but their vehicles typically cost double or even triple what the Hyundai costs and the sizes of the vehicles are very comparable. Will we end up replacing the accent with a hybrid? Maybe. But it is far more important to me that a vehicle is energy efficient than if it is a hybrid. In other words, if being a hybrid car makes it energy efficient, great, but remember that you don't need to drive a hybrid in order to get great gas mileage.
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