Only one in three hybrid owners stick with technology when replacing vehicle

I don't have any stats to compare it to but I would think that it seems low.
Kind of incomplete without a commentary from the hybrid owners on the reasoning for their choice...

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Another example of crappy reporting/research. Basic questions that should have been asked:
How does this number compare with how other types of cars are replaced?
What's the reasoning given for not replacing with a hybrid?
How many people are switching from a regualr car to a hybrid?

Why is it that I can figure out that these questions need to be asked, but professional journalists and researchers somehow miss them?????

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It is easy to understand why the so-called journalists do not ask these obvious questions, the answers would not serve their agenda. The "problem" is that not enough people are choosing to purchase hybrid cars so the Democrat solution is to limit their choices to the correct options as determined by their betters in government.

Over the years I've noticed you seem to kind of hate alternative energy.
Did a relative of yours get run over by a hybrid? Or get slashed by a windmill? Just wondering why the total angst.

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It's my view that people like to change models sometimes. There are not that many hybrids to choose from at this point. So you might opt out and turn around in a couple of years and opt back in. I wouldn't mind driving a hybrid. I would like it if I didn't need to drive at all.

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I don't hate alternative energy and my post has nothing to do with laternative energy whatsoever. It's about the piss-poor excuse for reporting that this article is such blatant example of.


For the record, most forms of alternative energy are not viable and never will be viable because the physics and economics simply don't work. They are fringe concepts designed to suck tax dollars and nothing else. I dislike most of them because they simply do not accomplish what they are intended to do. So because I don't like stupid ideas, I get accused of hating alternative energy. Show us one that will actually do what it's promised to do and do it economically. Show us an alternative that's better than petroleum based fuel that won't drive up energy costs. Wind is an absolute failure (undependable, low life-span on equipment, environmentally destructive) solar has the small problem of physics in it's way (the amount of energy that hits the ground and is recoverable falls FAR short of anything that would actually be viable) and those are the two best propositions out there.

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Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

Well I'm coming to you now from a plug in and a solar panel.

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Two-thirds probably figured out that the really high cost just wasn't worth it.

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I only know one person who had a hybrid and they didn't replace it with a new hybrid because they said the cost of repairs to it was just not worth it. I, myself, never wanted a hybrid because they have too many points of failure for my comfort. Maintenance on them has to suck balls.

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yeah it's the high costs. The savings in gas really doesn't cut it.

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