Should fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars be required to be converted over to hybrid technology?
No they should not. Fire trucks and ambulances run on diesel because it is optimal for the truck idling for several hours at the scene of a fire and for hauling all the weight of a fire vehicle or ambulance. Police cars are high performance vehicles designed to pursue and overtake almost any other vehicle on the road. Hybrid and alternative fuels are not good for high performance vehicles. All these vehicles are high performance and are designed specifically to carry out a specific task. Switching to hybrid technology and alternative fuels could cause problems with vehicle performance. Why fix it if its not broken? I can’t speak for fire trucks and police cars, but I know that ambulances are heavy vehicles that are expected to be able to be on the road 24 hours a day. A hybrid engine can’t support such a heavy vehicle, and gas mileage is the least of our worries as tax payers pay for our fuel. The number of people who have trust in hybrid technology and alternate fuels is small. That i
