Hybrid car owners fuming over low gas mileage!

Hybrid car owners natonwide (yes, all 9 of them) are incensed over the low gas mileage they’ve been seeing from their super efficient vehicles. It seems that claims of 46 - 70 miles per gallon are falling far short –about 40% short to be more exacting– of the EPA estimates.

Hey, green guy! Welcome to the club. If you’d been paying attention for the last 19 years you’d have already known that the EPA estimates are WAAAAYYY over inflated. That’s why my Dodge Ram Hemi pickup (”Can you say ‘Hemi’?”) rated at 13 city, 17 highway has never gotten better than 11.5 mpg.

Of course, you’re still feeling smug because you now understand that while your Prius is tooting along at only 31mpg, I’m probably taking out Home Equity Loans to pay for my gasoline just to get to the gas station. No problem. By the time it takes you to get from 0 to 60 I’ll be where I’m going and back again (unless, God forbid, you’re in front of me) and time is also money. (By the way, I’ll be dumping 1 overly toxic lead-acid battery into the environment every three - five years. How many batteries in that hybrid?)