"Hybrids are a socialists' response to the absoluite absence of any demand worthy of the use of the word.
If folks really gave a darn about gas economy, Europe's incredibly energy-efficient 65MPG modern diesels would be the way to go. And they're WAY better looking."
Well, over the long run, recovering braking energy is a good idea.
But government subsidies to lower the price when the technology won't pay for itself is another sotry.
<< .... government subsidies to lower the price when the technology won't pay for itself is another story. >>
As in grossly energy and Capital negative corn based ethonol, for another example of the absolute bloody lunacy of placing the keys to the United States Treasury in the hands of the organized criminal gangs of universally corrupt failed lawyers and other RICO-racketeering economics-illiterate lusters after unearned and undeserved power loosely known as the United States "congress." And its Socialist Internationale alligned and systemically-stupid permanent bureaucracy and that hapless mobbed-up-unions controlled ratbag pack's every-bit-as-corrupt snake-oil-salesmen-like "advisers," "contractors" and "suppliers."
Perhaps?