As a fairly recent hybrid convert, I had been watching the issue and waiting until there was "more" market presence. Coworker of mine has a Prius, and he and I would talk hybrids now and again. I started reading more on it and asking him more questions. Sometimes he came back with, "I just don't know that answer." He never once snowed me, and I just keep digging.

Now I'm the one who stumbles onto the various myths and passes them and rebuttals along to him. He asked me about Sudbury a week or so ago, and I started digging. The NASA Moon Rover thing did not compute the first time I read it. He had the same reaction I did. NASA? The Moon? Last there in the 1970s? How many Priuses were rolling around then? I found plenty to shred the argument quickly, but I spent more time and looked for certain things I wanted to find on Sudbury.

Sometimes it's a simple case of believing what one chooses to believe.

Other times it's a simple case of believing what others have told one--particularly in news stories.

Occasionally an argument is put forth which is plausible, and one simply chooses to accept the argument without challenge.