528. Your friends tell you to shut up about hybrids and say you are a nerd and that they don't care when in reality they are just jealous!!

Hey, really early on in this post ppl talked about a "Top 10 you know you own a hybrid when..." shirt. Are people still interested in this? I know I would want one, along with my dad and brother. Awesome way to promote hybrid technology too.

529 You can explain to someone that owning a hybrid is NOT just about saving money on gas, though it is nice!

530 You bring empty bottles on long trips so you can drive your whole tank at once and not ruin your mpg by making restroom stops. (only for the most daring of people )

This is what I'm refering to.

Missed this two:

531. You laugh reading some of the above and below numerals.
532. Every time you go to your regular gas station for fuel, it went out of business.

Getting a lower MPG tank average feels like watching your favorite football team loose.

Could also be called "mudflapping".

533. You've added an airfoil to your roof so that at higher speeds the lift will reduce the weight of your car.
534. For hybrid SUV owners: Added a rear cone to increase your vehicle's aerodynamics.
535. You secretly run a line from granma's oxygen tank to your ICE intake so when you do actually use gas you get a more efficient burn.
536. You ditch granma on the side of the road and keep the tank.
537. You imagine your car turning invisible when you go into stealth mode.
538. You call the 1-800-how am I driving number in the hopes of telling the trucker your slipstreaming to slow down so you can get better mileage.
539. You're kids are considered the coolest in school for knowing how to jump into and out of a moving vehicle.
540. Your daughter thanks you after she wins the gold medal in gymnastic for training her in how to tumble out of a car at 30 mph.
541. You keep a picture of your car and the mpg dashboard in a locket around your neck.
542. You considered leaving your newborn in the hospital because the added weight would drop your mpg by .1 mpg.
543. You like reading the market oil prices while your car is accelerating from a stop, and you have enough time to do it.
544. You're seriously considering ways to add peddaling to your vehicle.
545. OPEC has a contract on your head. No, really.
546. Your electric bill is more than you spend on gas.
547. You've had to enter into negotiations with your battery packs over unfair treatment.
548. Your kids would rather walk because the can get to where they're going faster.
549. You agree with them.
550. You find yourself wishing you had cruise missles everytime you see a hummer, but then realize it would hurt your MPG if you did.
551. You've rented out time in an air tunnel to see what parts you can take off your car to improve your mileage.
552. You've ever looked at your engine and thought, "Do I really need that part?"
553. Yep, you did.

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554. You use your left leg to adjust your position in the parking spot rather than restart the engine.

(This actually works dang good with my Mercury Mariner Hybrid. YMMV and be sure you are not going to get hit by someone if you try it.)

555. Your husband asks about the rolled up towel you keep in the car and is eerily silent despite your gleeful explanation that it goes under your right leg while driving to provide the optimum lift to your otherwise too-short leg so that you can properly "feather" the gas pedal with the ball of your foot at the "tip-top" of the pedal, cuz the pedal is on a "bottom pivot," you know, using levers and fulcrums and stuff like that from physics class, and if you do this you will maximize fuel economy, and you know this is true cuz some gal named Tarabell wrote this really cool article which you read on the hybrid forum you visit several times a day for all sorts of really awesome information ....