Have you hugged a what?
Typical "Reason" BS:
But the biggest reason why a Hummer's energy use is so low is that it shares many components with other vehicles and therefore its design and development energy costs are spread across many cars. ...Uhm, could it be that the more hybrids are sold, the less the per-car energy usage will be?
But while the environment has dodged Ford's hybrid foray, Toyota has shown no planetary concerns. It is going full throttle ahead with its plan of putting one million hybrids on the road by the end of the decade. Nor is there much hope that it will back-off in the near future given that it has already sunk $2 billion just in hybrid-related research and development, Spinella points out. Ironically Ford and some of the other car makers' exit from the hybrid segment means that Toyota will be able to consolidate its domination in it even more.
Hug a Hummer? Only if libertarians come up with a way to force people not to buy hybrids! Oh, and as for slumping hybrid sales, it doesn't look like it.


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