gonehiking,

Man, I feel for you. We all bought our hybrids expecting a huge increase in MPGs and there is no real way to know that it wont provide them until you do actually own one for a while and see for yourself. Where I was last week, any beater would probably get that kind of mpg, perhaps even better, again, who knows till you try.

In about 3 weeks, we will be taking the same trip, BUT even further. We may take our non-hybrid which gets close to the same mpg. We are taking it just to give it some exercise too and to just give us a different ride to break the monotony of same basic trip again.