As others have mentioned, the TCH gets better mileage on the highway than in town. However, I have been amazed that my mileage sometimes goes up during the hour or so I'm in rush hour traffic on my way home. The traffic is what I would call "slow and go" as it rarely stops completely. Rather it often slows to under 20mph with congestion periodically slowing things to ~5mph. I find I can P&G and still keep a reasonable following distance. During the week I have no problems keeping the low to mid 40mpg range.

It is the weekends that are tough. Shorter trips and city driving often drop my tank average by 2 or 3 mpg.

MSNBC tries to compare months that normally have a decline in sales and say the drop is news.... Some interesting numbers Toyota car sales dropped by ~24% comparing August to November sales (144K vs 109K sold, yet are up from 2005.) For the same months, Prius sales dipped ~28% and TCH dipped ~37%. So yes hybrid sales are off some, but nothing like the MSNBC article indicates.