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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
My mechanical engineer buddy wants to start something to where town and city police fleets would have to start buying a lot more hybrid cop cars.
He got the idea to do this when he saw a prius cop car at Hampton university, he doesn't think it will catch on by its self.
He claims far too many tax dollars are being wasted buying gas guzzelling cars and then fueling them over there life time of very slowly accumulated miles.
Life as a cop car is harsh. Life as a taxi, worse. But they seem to make great taxi cars.
He says most cop cars spend a lot of time ideling with the A/C on and drive most of there miles well under 50mph. He would know since most of his family are cops and resent the idea of having a fleet heavy with hybrids.
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Let me suggest an alternate approach:
- department buys the car, $25-27,000 fixed price limit
- official identifies and finds the car within the budget limit
- department pays the maintenance (department owned asset)
- government official paid the fuel cost at US Federal Government per-diem
What this does is let the official choose between a wide range of moderately priced vehicles. They can get something that meets their expectations for their work. However, if they choose a fuel efficient vehicle, their family gets "egg money" . . . their choice.
Bob Wilson