[rb22982]

You were the one on a soap box. I would not recommend a hybrid at this point, but you could easily get a more fuel efficient SUV. The Kia Sportage, for example, gets 28 mpg highway, 23 city. It's not a huge SUV but has plenty of room, isn't that expensive, and gets 50% better MPG than the one you just purchased (and it's not a hybrid).

And you have far more faith than I do that this country will ever get 'serious' about energy. I could care less about environmental concerns--I care only about #1) Lowering my OWN bill which means having a more fuel efficient vehicle #2 Sending less money to those countries that hate us which means having a more fuel efficient vehicle.

[G Larry]

Kia shmia!

I want reliability, quaility, and performance.

I looked seriously at the RAV-4, but it was just to flimsy inside. If fuel efficiency and my “OWN” bill were priorities, I may have accepted flimsy. They aren’t!

My car choices aren’t going to change the nation’s politics, and I’m not too worried about how many countries hates us.
I don’t have ANY faith this country will get serious about its energy policy until we’re neck deep in a crisis.
We’ll contine with such idiocy as turning food into fuel, wind, solar, and other pitiful, half-measures.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep buying quality, performance vehicles, once every 12 years.
Do you see any 12 yr old Kia’s on the road?
The folks that bought my “old” car will still be driving it in 5 years.