Not to mention the fact that if you have a crum-cruncher or two or three, a prius is highly ineffective.... especially if you carpool. Oh, and how about those of use with toys, like boats.
230MPG. What a joke. It’s like they think we can wave a magic wand and make cars move.
Don't know if it's an urban legend or not, but I heard a story about a group of very young government weenies meeting with car execs and engineers about car design. Well, the car guys told the goobers that what they wanted to do was "against the laws of physics". The goobs immediately started scratching in notebooks to research whatever law this was and get it repealed!