[ClearCase_guy]

I see both positives and negatives to this sort of crime.

[Greysard]

“They are worth 3,400 bucks,” Padilla said. “They’re very expensive.”

There are many parts in any car that cost just as much, if not more. A coworker complained once that he was charged more than $1K for a plastic bumper for his import. Besides, the $3,400 is for the new battery under warranty. How much would anyone pay for a used battery, with unknown provenance? How many owners of hybrids are so poor that they have to buy parts from vendors in a dark alley?

[Mastador1]

Somewhere in Queens an evil genius is build a giant battery powered Mobile Suit Gundam!

[Fungi]

See a profit center, a crime will follow. The criminals finally learned of this one. Ha Ha.

[redfreedom]

A 50 pound battery worth $3400??

This hybrid Camry supposedly gets 43 mpg city, 39 highway. Our SUV gets 25 in the city, 33 highway.

That’s OK, we’ll keep the SUV and be safe and comfortable.

[Pontiac]

“They are worth 3,400 bucks,” Padilla said. “They’re very expensive.”

Your tax dollars at work.

Without Federal mandates and subsidies those batteries would not exist and so could not be stolen.

So in a roundabout way your Federal government is subsidizing crime.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Bush’s fault!

[Nowhere Man]

Whomever is behind this must be "charged" with an "assault on a battery." (RIMSHOT)

B-)

[Falconspeed]

I would charge the thieves on the grounds that they shocked static car owners. The current prices of hybrids might go up.

BTW, 95% of cars will be using oil in year 2050, according to my research.

[mrsmith]

The peasants are re-volting!

[Oztrich Boy]

In the olden days they’d just siphon gas.

[uglybiker]

Hey man! Somebody stole yo' bat'ry!

[Cooter]

Obviously perpetrated by an organized cell.