Analysis: Hyrbid Cars Are A Big Money Loser: ‘A hybrid car’s better-than-avg. gas mileage is economically irrelevant when it takes years of driving to amortize hybrid’s much higher up-front costs’
'Even if you triple the Prius' annual fuel savings – make it an even $1,000 a year, say – it will still take you nearly ten years to work off the higher up-front costs of the Prius...deep down, I think they buy hybrids because they want to tell others how “green” they are. It is a political act, not an economic one'
