There are clusters of anti-hybrid skeptics:

1. non-hybrid marketers - those who live by selling or supporting non-hybrids are trying to fight what they see as competition, blissfully ignorant that it is also their future.
2. political ax grinders - entertainers who make a living belittling others. When facts and data are not there, they lie or repeat a lie, about hybrids. They love to pick on 'global warming' and 'green' but haven't noticed that it isn't working thanks to the price of gas.
3. distractors - those who have something else to advocate, trolls by another name.

The "anti hybrid" crowd is shrinking but there are a few well known examples:

• CNW Marketing - bogus hybrid dust-to-dust report and now published in cars.com
• Cars.com - source or lint collector for critical news about hybrids
• USA magazine rack, every auto magazine editor and reporter - rigged tests using manual transmission anything versus a hybrid that show the manual transmission, non-hybrid doesn't s*ck
• Center For Automotive Research - a think tank that seems unable to conceive of any hybrid technology but is bang on for gas only vehicles
• non-hybrid sales critters - oppose competing hybrid technology that takes away their customers
• Jeremy Charles Clarkson - Top Gear presenter had a Prius shot up
• Martin Delgado - Sunday Mail reporter lied about hybrid batteries
• Chris Demorro - student newspaper reporter who repeated CNW Marketing and Martin Delgado nonsense without fact checking
• Penn and Teller - Las Vegas magic act reporting bogus engineering analysis
• Vinod Khosla - venture capitalists who continues to repeat false hybrid cost claims
• Rush Limbaugh - . . .
• "Hydrogen Fuel Technology" that replaced "Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles"
• alternative engines, alternative fuels, alternative <tbd>

I became a hybrid owner in October 2005 but the anti-hybrid crowd had been active before then. However, the increased gas prices since Katrina has eviscerated the worst of their nonsense.

Bob Wilson

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