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Old 01-12-2007, 05:28 PM
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Default Re: Carmakers ramp up hybrid plans as buyer interest wanes

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Originally Posted by tanstaafl14 View Post
Just wait until gas starts going up again (as it inevitably will).

BTW, gas prices have not fallen by 2/3 from the Aug. high. That would have meant going from $3 to $1. Slightly less than a 1/3 drop is more like it. (Prices around here got close to, but never broke below, $2 before the late Oct. run-up.)
Actually, gas prices have been steadily going back up since the November election (a more transparent vote-bribe I've never seen). In Baltimore, gasoline was $2.04/gallon on election day. A short 64 days later, it's up to to $2.39/gallon. So it's going up at about a penny every other day. So if that progression follows to summer, gasoline will back at $2.99/gallon (120 days from now at 0.5 cents per day.)

It seemed to me that it was the $3 mark when people who were generally uninterested in hybrids suddenly wanted to save gas.

I am very certain that the psychological threshhold will be crossed this summer -- especially since Bush isn't going to be getting any smarter, less corrupt, or less greedy.

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