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Originally Posted by ward
hybrids are BS to make people feel better about themselves
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Agreed. In general, people buy hybrids to make it look like they care about the environment, not because they actually care about the environment. If they actually cared about the environment, they'd move out of their McMansions and be biking to work. Hybrids are just a way to make them feeling good about THEMSELVES and ease their conscience. Hybrids do very very little for either the environment OR our dependence on oil. You can get 45-50mpg with a good diesel that costs half the price of a Prius.
Another thing for the OP, until this year, Prius was advertised at 60mpg city and 51mpg highway. That is being dropped this year to be more inline with what it really gets, 50mpg city and 45 mpg highway. If you do a lot of city driving, the Prius makes more sense because at low city speeds (under 32 mph), the Prius is running off of the electric motor. But once you are over 32mph, the electric motor can't power the wheels and you are running solely off of the gas engine, just like any other car.