The Futility of Hybrid Cars

"The more time you spend looking at the economics of the hybrids, the less comfortable you get...Each one becomes a free pass for its manufacturer to sell a few extra gas guzzlers...Instead of simply saving gas when you buy a hybrid, you're giving somebody else the right to use it...The hybrid, then, is just about the perfect example of what's wrong with our energy policy...But that, sadly, is what a lot of well-meaning hybrid owners are driving: an expensive symbol that they're worried about our planet, rather than a true solution."