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The Obama Fast Track for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs)

"Cars with plugs simply do not work for anyone other than the emotionally committed or the mathematically challenged." Only if the 60% fuel savings number is correct. Where did it come from? For a second car used for short trips only, the number would be much higher...closer to 100%.

" The logical flaw is the suggestion that 20 Asians will happily give up their hybrid scooter so that one American can have a PHEV."
Why would they have to give up their scooters? Demand for resources to make the batteries would raise the price of those resources to everyone but Asian buying power is lot more powerful these days. Seems to me the converse is more likely, Americans giving up PHEVs so Asian can have their cars ("scooters", may be both demeaning and archaic).