You would think that since car sales are picking back up and gas is almost at $5 a gallon, hybrids would be the hottest thing at the corner dealership. Au contraire, mon frère! Looks like folks are looking at cars that are not so fuel efficient, but less expensive. I’ll bet the liberal social manipulators are hating that. Here’s an article from Real-Time Advice, written by AnnaMaria Andriotis that gives us the scoop on hybrid sales:
Car sales are up again, but despite rising gas prices, few consumers are buying hybrids. Instead, they’re choosing less fuel-efficient – and less costly — subcompacts and mid-size vehicles.
March sales rose 22% from the previous month and 13% from a year ago to an annualized rate of 14.3 million vehicles, according to data released today by Edmunds.com. Experts credit rising gas prices as a leading factor for this spike in consumer demand. Sales of subcompact cars and mid-size cars made up 24% of total market share in March, up three percentage points from a year ago – the biggest growth in any category, according to forecasts by Kelley Blue Book. But despite the large swings in gas prices, hybrid sales have barely budged: they made up just 2.1% of market share last month, almost unchanged from a year ago. Of the 1.4 million cars that sold last month, less than 30,000 of them were hybrids. “Interest in hybrids is not as high as one would think especially in light of high gas prices,” says Jesse Toprak, vice president of market intelligence at TrueCar.com.
Hybrids were supposed to thrive as gas prices skyrocketed and consumers looked for ways to lower their costs at the pump. But that demand hasn’t materialized largely because of their cost. Typically, a hybrid car will cost $1,000 to $4,000 more than the same car with a conventional gas engine, says John O’Dell, a senior editor at Edmunds.com. And in some cases the hybrid version could cost a whopping $30,000 extra.
So what are the government social engineers going to do to get the people (read: serfs) to buy the hybrids and the electrics and the wind-turbine methane burning poop-mobiles? Why, raise the CAFE fuel standards again! Our federal taskmasters will force the car companies to sell more hybrids even if the people don’t want them. Want a Suburban with a good V8? Sorry, the Feds will make sure the car companies don’t have many of them, if any, because they have to keep their average fuel efficiencies at a higher level or else get shut down.
Don’t you just love the government telling you what to do, what to drive, what kind of toilet you can have, where your kids go to school, what to read, what to see on TV, how much money you can have, what kind of light bulbs you can have, what kind of health insurance you HAVE to have . . . ? Well? Shut up and like it. It’s the liberal progressive way.

Mitt Romney, A greedy tax cheat who stashes his ill-gotten money in Swiss banks like the Mafia, and Ann Romney a lazy over-privileged woman who sits on her butt all day using her kids as an excuse NOT to get a real job, 14 years after the kids left the house. Who would you rather have America, the super rich spoiled poor people-hating, corporations are people saying over-privileged people who never worked hard a day in their lives or a former community leader who worked for the poor and middle class. Yes Romney worked at Bain, but stealing money from poor companies is not working hard and as governor, his state was 47th in job creation.
So who is Ward Payne? The exact same comment was posted by “Republicans are a Cancerr to the United States”. If you are this particular “Ward Payne”, then you’re a moron, plain and simple. If you are named Ward Payne and this is not you, then I would be tryin g to fi nd out who this idiot is and get him to go away. He is making every Ward Payne in the world look really stupid. Everything in his little comment is a lie. But I find that to be so typical of liberals anyway. I swear it had GOT to be a mental illness.
PS, here is the perfect response from a commentor further down:
Posted by: Zenguy1213 | April 16, 2012, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
Wait. So according to the liberal trolls here in the comments, I’m supposed to be mad at Mitt Romney for what he’s doing with HIS money, but not mad at Barak Obama for what he’s done with MY money? Sure. You guys run with that.