In article 250120100905262832%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca, Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article , Larry Jaques
wrote:
What I'm amazed at is that more of the hybrids aren't being built. The
combo is dynamite!

They're still too spendy for me. Too much cost, too little benefit. If
I could recover the extra cost in 5 years with savings in running cost,
I'd be interested. But as long as the pitch is "will nobody think of
the children!" I ain't biting.

Too much cost, and *no* net benefit when all is considered. Checked into how
environmentally dirty it is to mine the nickel to make the batteries for those
things? Not to mention the energy costs of building a new vehicle. Me, I'm
into recycling, big time. I don't mess around with recycling a few pounds
of cans or bottles (which we use very little of anyway) -- I recycle tons at a
time: when I need a car, I buy used, never new.