Hybrid News

I was on my way to visit a friend who lives 40 miles away on the opposite side of the city from me last night. It is an easy drive as it is x-way the whole way & the speed limit is 65 mph.

As it was 5:00 rush hour traffic, the traffic volume was fairly heavy in all lanes. As I got nearer to his exit, the right lane traffic became very slow & ridiculously backed up & my speed dropped to around 42 mph (before that, traffic had been cruising along at right around the speed limit).

I managed to get a kind person to let me over into the middle lane & after reaching the head of the 3/4 mile slowdown in the right lane I had to roll my eyes when I saw what was causing the major traffic tie up (which had people very exasperated, I could tell from the horn blowing & hand gestures being made). I figured it was probably a 90 year old driver causing the tie up, but that wasn’t the case. At the head of that backed up line in rush hour traffic line was a revolting green FEH absolutely covered with tree hugger & Hybrid stickers & a middle age woman driving it.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have completely changed my style of driving in the years I have been driving an FEH (this is my 2nd one). I am not the guy flying by at 85 mph in the passing lane anymore (that WAS me for years), but I’ll be ****ed if I am going to hold up traffic & cause a major traffic snafu just to save a couple mpg & cause all the drivers around me to despise anyone driving a Hybrid. In the area we where in, there are multiple less traveled roads this woman could have taken (some of them follow along RIGHT NEXT to the x-way) instead of the x-way &amp not bothered anybody in the least with her driving style.

~John