Reply #10: Constant effort to deride the hybrid.

[Toucano]

Last week I saw several items that were also part of the effort to keep the oil monkey on our backs.

The first one was a teaser: "The hidden danger of hybrid cars!" The story that followed? Someone says that if a hybrid wrecks it could become electrified and threated the occupants and the rescue teams. An engineer is interviewed who dispels the concern as "impossible". That's the "hidden danger" - an imaginary threat.

The next one was introduced with the teaser: "The problem with hybrid cars". I think this was CNN. It turns out the PROBLEM is there aren't enough to keep up with demand and so people are WILLINGLY paying hundreds over list price for the cars. Isn't that terrible. Effing hybrid!

There is obviously an anti-hybrid campaign going on.