Lies About Hybrids

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Does anyone think the time when the media was making such a big deal about people being angry that their hybrid cars did not get the full gas mileage that was advertised was a big bogus lie made up by the auto industry (mainly the American) and helped by the media? I recently saw a post on a sport discussion board that was titled hybrid cars are a hoax played out on stupid people. I am planning to go back to the discussion board and explain to that person why it is that hybrid cars do not get the gas mileage that is written on their sticker.

However, getting back to the actual hybrid car/auto industry/media issue. As of about yesterday I began thinking that all the supposed people who were angry about their hybrid getting lower mileage than expected may have been over blown. Myself and other had always wondered why people who bought hybrids would care if the car got 40 mpg rather than 60 mpg. Off the top 40 mpg is great gas mileage. Furthermore if the media told people that the cars that advertised getting 30 mpg did not get that rating 40 mpg sounds even better. Other people claimed that people who bought the other cars were not expecting to get great gas mileage so they did not car about the lack of gas mileage. Also, people claimed that the people who bought Hummers had the money to buy these expensive vehicles so the could afford the high gas prices.

I now tend to think that the people who bought regular cars were like people who bought hybrid cars. They did not realize that the car they bought did not get the gas mileage that was pointed out by the EPA. That, I think is the real reason they did not complain about the cars gas mileage. That leads me to believe that the owners of hybrids cars did not really complain about the gas mileage of their cars. I am now beginning to think that the complaining about gas mileage was the real hoax that was played on people by the auto industry and the media. In addition, if you look at the issue from another angle you could come to the same conclusion. When all the complaining about hybrid cars was happening Ford and GM were having hard times, although they had not yet announced the hugh debts they were carrying, and they had not put out hybrids yet. Now that Ford and GM have put out hybrids I do not hear about people complaining about their hybrids not getting the proper gas mileage.

So, I contend the fuss about hybrid cars not getting proper gas mileage was just a hoax played out by the media and the (American) auto industry. I think the media purposely put out that hybrids cars did not meet expected gas mileage and then purposely failed to mention that no car meets expected gas mileage. If you are in the auto industry you would know that Hybrids did not get 60 mpg due to the EPA's flawed test. However, most people outside the auto industry would not know about the EPA's flawed tests. So, if they heard that the hybrids do not get the expected gas mileage they would think it was just a hybrid car issue and decide not to spend the extra $3,000. The media also made a big deal about whether it was financially smart for a person to pay and extra $3,000 when the car did not meet expected gas mileage. I think this may have been a joint effort by the (American) auto industry and the media to prevent people from buying foreign hybrids and to keep people buying American made gas only cars in order to try to prevent Ford and GM from going broke. If every American had abandoned Ford and GM before they put out their hybrid versions the companies would have gone broke.