Hybrid or Hype

With gasoline at over three dollars per gallon, many people are looking at getting a hydrid. Still. the Prius came out ten years ago in 1997. And hybrids have less than 3% of the market. Imagine if DVD was 3% of the market and VHS was 97% ten years later. Would you call that success?

Interest in hydrids is waning. They are too expensive and fail to deliver promised savings. Many people say that the Toyota Prius gets 30mpg city instead of the promised 60. They are better off with a Yaris. It is smaller, cheaper, and costs less to fix. Toyota Yaris gets 34mpg city and starting price is $10,950. Well, much better deal than a $25,000 hybrid at less than half the cost.

I did predict that tiny little cars were the future. My scooter gets 150mpg and it cost me less than a thousand at Pep Boys, in fact, they were on sale for $699.