It's not surprising that over the last 2 weeks people have been inquiring more about hybrids. They are coming to the reality that we hybrid owners have known for some time..........and that is that the price of gas is going to go up. It has done that on record levels here in the US recently. Even if gas goes down for a bit, we still have no control over what price we pay for gas. The only control we have is to make wiser choices on the type of vehicles we choose to drive!!