Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy?

nissin writes "I'm ready to buy my first vehicle, and would like to hear your experiences with either hybrid or electric vehicles. Are they a good alternative to conventional vehicles, or just a geek toy? Do they perform well in the city? How about on long road trips? I am also interested in hearing about other alternative, yet practical, forms of transportation that I may have missed."

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A different view...

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The arguments made in this thread against hybrids are pretty silly, and admittedly, I have the same view about most sports cars.

Sports cars are ugly. They're usually smaller than the people who drive them, and overly bumpy. They enjoy adding curves to the car kind of the same way in cartoons they add muscles to people where there aren't any in real life. They sound horrible, as if someone fired a tommy gun into the engine block and/or muffler. The mileage is awful. They only fit two people. If you get into any crash over 30 mph, you're dead. They can't hold anything. The gas mileage STILL sucks somehow.

Now I look at a hybrid. It takes less gas. It doesn't have tons of money poured into performance over 100 mph (money completely wasted). They have frames that can take much more of an impact. They can hold a lot more cargo AND people. IMHO they are better looking the same way a full bodied woman looks better than an anorexic. Oh and obviously they cost far less, go much farther, and repair much cheaper.

If you have a small penis, absolutely, get a sports car. If OTOH you have a brain, get whatever suits your needs, certainly do not submit to peer pressure or buy a car to impress someone. It's way too important for that crap.

Re:Getting a lot better

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Oil is just as "renewable" as natural gas. They both come from the same hole in the ground.

You are confusing natural gas with propane. Natural Gas is just scrubbed methane. Methane is produced from innumerable sources, and is absolutely renewable; while it is often found in the same pockets as oil reserves, there is no reason at all that natural gas has to be obtained by mining; any decaying plant or animal waste will produce ample quantities of methane.