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Originally Posted by Fire
I am in a buisiness that relies on gas to survive- I travle to shows to sell my wares, and let me tell you this sucks big time- being a one man shop and very small buisiness means that every penny counts, and I am counting a lot less of them on account of this- the only thing softening it somewhat is that I had the luck to diversify and get some local sales outlets up and going before this hit- and while I will weather it, its just because I planned for something like this a while ago- seems like now would be the time for car dealers to hit the hybrid thing hard.......and a cargo hybrid would rock too.....
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From what I've been told the hybrids have been selling out for quite a while, what they really need to do is get the costs down on them so that a 'normal' car is a lot closer in price to a hybrid.
As of my last check a few months ago a hybrid was running about 10k more than a normal car of equal features. Thats a nice chunk of change. I worked it out and at the gas prices then it would take me something like 6 years of driving my TAHOE (read guzzler) to equal that 10k and 'break even' with a hybrid.
Thats not good economics.