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"Paek: Five Reasons to buy a hybrid-electric vehicle
By Heidi Paek/ Our Energy
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Are you in the market for a new car? If you're like me - getting 17 mpg in a 1997 SUV with faulty air conditioning - maybe it's time to consider all the options.

Now that oil prices are emptying everyone's pockets, hybrid-electric cars are worth considering. These cars look like most others, but under the hood they have two propulsion systems: a gasoline engine and an electric motor. Hybrids combine the best features of the internal combustion engine with an electric drive system that significantly improves fuel economy without sacrificing performance or driving range.

Hybrid-electric vehicles offer five key advantages:
. . ."

It is so refreshing to read a positive article. This one also quotes an Insight driver and hypermiler.

Bob Wilson

Operation Iraqi Oil Freedom:

Automatic, stock, project car.

My other 1500 cc car:

Automatic, stock, backup car.
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I'm so sick of the "hybrids don't pay for themselves during the first 60k miles so they shoud all be crushed" articles. Talking to the average person though, makes me realize that people still have no clue about what hybrids really are (how fast does it go?)
(where do you plug it in?)

From something recent?

This sounds a lot more like "Who Killed The Electric Car", which showed some car makers crushing electric cars.

Bob Wilson

Operation Iraqi Oil Freedom:

Automatic, stock, project car.

My other 1500 cc car:

Automatic, stock, backup car.
Free speech, dialog and knowledge thrives without the poison of SPAM.