>>>Curious. How do you figure that?
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>>The increased purchase price of the car over similarly sized all-gas models outweighs the decreased gasoline costs.
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>Not sure about that. The prices are coming down. The cars will be more plentiful (more supply, lower price), and hopefully less ugly (as you mentioned in this thread).

If that's about Prius (the ugly bit), I actually prefer the way it looks over the looks of a regular sedan. It's a car, it's a computer, it can be hacked, it looks more like a sports shoe than like a coach without horses... I like that better than a Lexus.