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Originally Posted by Pravus Prime
Preaching to the Choir.
It's nice to see someone not remind us that there's a price difference, then ignore all the benefits that the initial price difference gets the buyer.
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It has been my observation that social change goes through three stages:
1) the pariah phase where social outsiders point to problems and perhaps even to where their solutions lie. They are, of course, jeered by the rest of society.
2) "Outer" establishment phase where rank-and-file members of society accept the problem and tentatively adopt proposed solutions. I believe that we are in the initia stages of this phase regarding hybrids now.
3) "Inner" establishment phase where the procedures and laws of the society are altered to incorporate the new solutions. (I am not talking here about such things as governemtn tax incentives. Manufacturer incentives might come closer to meeting this point.) But eventually hybrids will be accepted as a regular part of the transportation system and not noticed any more than the difference between a convential sedan and a hatchback. Where procedures and laws have to be modified to accomodate them, this will be done. I think we are a good five to ten years (perhaps more) from this stage.