[steenkeenbadges]

This gas thing is a pile of puckey. The push will be on for those wimpy Prius "hybrid" cars - forgetting that plugging them in will take electricity (which is free, right?)

Then there'll be a tax on non-hybrid cars and we'll be right back where we started.

Start a home business, make extra bucks, and write the whole thing off. Then go to the gym and out to dinner when you damn well please.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Actually, doing business from home is part of the agenda I didn't mention. And I agree with you that by the time you add in the "easy monthly payments" on a hybrid, you'll have to drive it to the moon and back before you break even. Not paying any more taxes than you need to is admirable.

[RayChuang88]

This gas thing is a pile of puckey. The push will be on for those wimpy Prius "hybrid" cars - forgetting that plugging them in will take electricity (which is free, right?)

However, when gasoline engines get direct fuel injection, lean-burn combustion (air to fuel ratio of 40:1 or higher), improved spark plug designs, and improved variable valve timing, we could see as much as 35 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to today's engines, something that could happen by 2008. This is because gasoline is far more efficiently ignited in such an advanced engine, which means you can drastically reduce the amount of gasoline needed in the combustion chamber. The result is less need for turbodiesel engines and definitely less need for expensive hybrid drivetrains.

Besides, at current prices it has become economically viable to pump oil from less economic oilfields and use oil tar sands, oil shale and liquified coal to refine into petroleum products. Given the massive amount of tar sands, oil shale and coal in the USA and Canada we have enough to make motor fuels at current consumption rates for a couple of centuries!

[paul544]

Hybrids don't get plugged in. They get their power from regenerative breaking.

[Bulwark]

This gas thing is a pile of puckey. The push will be on for those wimpy Prius "hybrid" cars - forgetting that plugging them in will take electricity (which is free, right?)

Ya know you don't plug them in, right? And you know that by driving one you're using less gas (and therefore, oil) and sending less money to terrorist supporting regions/countries.