Before you get too dejected, and before you give up entirely on the TCH, consider:

1. If you get the TCH, it will get better mileage on your short city commute than the non-hybrid Camry. It just will not be as significant.

2. If you get the TCH, you will get much better mileage on longer city routes that you will inevitably take throughout the course of the year.

3. If you get the TCH, you will be contributing to a technology that may well have a significant impact on getting us away from our dependence on foreign oil, and you will be rightfully rewarding companies that are doing something about it.

4. If you get the TCH, it will make you irresistable to hot chicks and/or dudes.

Okay, maybe not that last one. But you should certainly consider the first three, in making your decision. From what you have said, it sounds like a Camry is the right *car* for you -- why not go with the hybrid?