I drive a Toyota Prius!
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I could take the premium you paid to wait in line and to buy a car marketed as an environmental savior so you could impress your friends and buy a pretty nice bike too... without having to wait the ~9 years to recoup the extra cost of the special car thru a miniscule savings in gas expense. Make sure and post something about how awesome you are for saving money on gas after you buy your first replacement battery pack.Kopiklokoli said:
"Butthurt"? Is that some kind of "Brokeback Mountain" reference?
It'll take much less time to recoup when gas is $7.50/gallon.Qman said:
Perhaps. That's the damn thing about that car, if you drive a lot of freeway cycles, your savings is pretty close to nil. Just think what kind of freeway mileage you could get with that thing if you weren't hauling around a few hundred pounds of batteries.SkaredShtles said:It'll take much less time to recoup when gas is $7.50/gallon.
Gas is already ~$10 usd per gallon in Norway...I suppose one could live there for a few years to make up the difference faster if that really is what life's all about.....the beer prices would kill your savings though.
The *everything* prices would kill your savings.Qman said:
But it is Norway after all.
I've been hearing a lot lately that alcohol is prohibited in Norway. While I'm not sure if that's true, I've met some gorgeous girls from Norway down here to partay. Most of their parents' imigrated to Norway because the salaries are so high there. This means that a lot of the Norweigen girls are Asian or originally from eastern Europe.SkaredShtles said:The *everything* prices would kill your savings.
But it is Norway after all.
It can't be true. The Norwegians wouldn't allow it.bikenweed said:
"Butthurt"? Is that some kind of "Brokeback Mountain" reference?[/QUOTE]
I was hanging out with a bunch of people the other night, one of which was "The Kadvang" and he used it, so yeah probably.
I was hanging out with a bunch of people the other night, one of which was "The Kadvang" and he used it, so yeah probably.
That may or may not be true about the alcohol ban....I doubt it but wouldn't be surprised.bikenweed said:I've been hearing a lot lately that alcohol is prohibited in Norway. While I'm not sure if that's true, I've met some gorgeous girls from Norway down here to partay. Most of their parents' imigrated to Norway because the salaries are so high there. This means that a lot of the Norweigen girls are Asian or originally from eastern Europe.
They tax their liquor based on alcohol content. So the brewpub we went to was charging us $30 a pitcher for the ambers, pilsners, lagers etc and $50 for the stout.
Thanks to Uncle Pete for picking up the tab for that night though. I think they gave us 50% off our food or something. That bill was waaaay lower than it should have been.
Because of this tax, homebrewing is BIG in Norway.
As for the women, I don't know what you're talking about. All I saw was blue eyed ones with blonde hair. In Trondheim and Stavanger anyway....
Bloody hell!!!!! Hope it was good beer. Good old Uncle Pete I guess. I see that Oslo has overtaken Tokyo as the world's most expensive city. Easy to see why.Qman said:
I may have found what you're talking about. I was looking around for more info on the Trondheim brewery and found this: http://beerblog.motime.com/
Talks about the lunchtime beer ban in Denmark. The horror!....
It has some good info. There's an entry about Nogne's two new beers. I'm told that Nogne is the best beer in Norway. The 1 liter bottles were about $9 usd each. The beer was good (both the nogne and at the brew pub) I don't remember thinking it was stellar but we were riding hard many days in a row so it tasted great every time.
Talks about the lunchtime beer ban in Denmark. The horror!....
It has some good info. There's an entry about Nogne's two new beers. I'm told that Nogne is the best beer in Norway. The 1 liter bottles were about $9 usd each. The beer was good (both the nogne and at the brew pub) I don't remember thinking it was stellar but we were riding hard many days in a row so it tasted great every time.
I haven't read any of the research, but it obviously would depend on the length of time your willing to keep the car to see if you could justify the higher initial cost of the vehicle. 9+ years sounds like a really long time.
The cost of repairing the electronic guts is probably pretty steep. I doubt that the technology is at a point where it is a wise purchase to make, but I'm fully behind all those who are willing to be an 'early adopter' so that the rest of us will reap the benefits of a better product developed later on.
Touch screens are fun! But quite a distraction while the novelty is still there...
And the thing did get a lot of looks from other motorists. I wonder what they were all thinking...
The cost of repairing the electronic guts is probably pretty steep. I doubt that the technology is at a point where it is a wise purchase to make, but I'm fully behind all those who are willing to be an 'early adopter' so that the rest of us will reap the benefits of a better product developed later on.
Touch screens are fun! But quite a distraction while the novelty is still there...
And the thing did get a lot of looks from other motorists. I wonder what they were all thinking...
DRB is a butthurter.
It's not. Trust me.Da Peach said:
