Now I can drive my Hybrid in Carpool lanes solo

[kenny]

I live in California.
We have has some of the worst air quality in the country.
To encourage hybrids, which have much lower emissions, they are allowing Hybrids to go in the carpool lanes solo.

http://kcal9.com/california/CA--HybridVehicles-kn/resources_news_html

I refuse to tailgate and I drive too slowly to enter the carpool lanes, except when it is moving under 60 MPH.
But all the freeway onramps now have two lanes.
One with redlights to wait at and another lane with no light for carpools.
I will be zipping up that lane riding on my horn and Whoo Hoooing at the sorry suckers waiting in their SUVs.

BTW I bought my Honda Civic Hybrid in April 2004.
The EPA rates the ones going to the clean states at 47/48 MPG.
My worst tank was 52 MPG
My best tank was 66.6 MPG
My lifetime average is 59.5 MPG.
I do drive like an old lady in the right lane but it is fun to see how little gas I need to get around.

With gas prices pushing $3 a gallon I am in LOVE with my hybrid car.

 

[MissAva]

Very kool!

I have been drooling over the 400h by Lexus...that will prolly be my next car. Or if the come out with a hybrid GS that would be fine too.

I wonder if other states will adopt this idea. I just realized that we dont have car pool lanes.

 

[kenny]

Actually it only applies to hybrids that the EPA rates at over 45 MPG.

Today there are only three:

Honda Insight - 66 MPG
Honda Civic Hybrid 48 MPG
Toyota Prius 50 MPG

 

[MissAva]

Oh well good thing I dont live in a state with car pool lanes.

 

[phoenixgirl]

Yummy, yummy, yummy. I have a 99 CRV, and I am just dying for Honda to come up with a CRV hybrid so I can get a new one! I read somewhere that one is supposed to come out next year, but it wasn''t an official press release or anything. Does anyone know for sure? Before I read that, I was trying to decide between a non-hybrid CRV or a hybrid civic. I thought of Gandhi''s words, "You must be the change you want to see in the world" and thought, oh shucks, I have to go with the hybrid. But this would be the best of both worlds.

 

[MissAva]

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