[bryanthompson]

All the hybrids do, in the current reality, is move the pollution from from the obvious place--the car, to one fairly non-noticeable place--the power plants, factories, and landfills that end up with tons of batteries... Think of what goes into one of those batteries, how much processing they go through, and then where they will end up and how that place is dealt with.

In the future, there might be an actual reduction in pollution in the whole cycle, but that'll take a lot of new technology and somehow, non toxic hydrogen cells and more efficient hydrogen extraction to go along with it.

I get kickass mileage in my $6,000 Stratus, and have fun in the 944.