OK, I just saw this in our local paper this Sunday, evidently it moved over AP on the 9th. I searched but didn't see it here!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209/...ernment_fleets

Interviews with fleet managers in Philly, Ann Arbor, New York and Oregon. Heavy on the-price-difference-won't-be-made-up-by-fuel-savings thing, although they quote the New York guy saying "It was not our mandate to save money," he said. "They're expecting us to pay more for a cleaner tailpipe."
But the cost was apparently too much for Ann Arbor's energy coordinator... "Is this year a good year to demonstrate our greenness by buying a hybrid vehicle?" he said. "And the answer was, 'no.'"

Fred