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June 30, 2008

Hybrid Shortage Could Stall Green Taxi Plan

The NY Post checks in on the greening of New York's yellow cabs. By October 1st around 2,500 of the 13,227 will need to be hybrid, but word is that there's a shortage of the vehicles -- the president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade said "there will not be enough to sustain this mandate." While he has asked the city to extend the deadline due to the "availability crisis," cabbies who have made the switch are still noting that they do not feel as safe in the cars.

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How could the type of energy used in a vehicle make a person feel unsafe, unless of course it was nuclear?

 

With the gas prices as they are cab drivers should be happy to be getting more miles per gallon.

 

It doesn't matter if they feel as safe, it only matters if they are as safe. It's not like the Crown Vic, whose basic platform dates back to the late 1970's, is a model of automotive safety.

 
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