{"id":1237,"date":"2005-06-02T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/06\/02\/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-a-hybrid\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T21:02:00","slug":"to-buy-or-not-to-buy-a-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-a-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"To Buy or Not to Buy a Hybrid…"},"content":{"rendered":"
That’s a debate that’s arisen among a few political bloggers. Matthew Yglesias at TAPPED fired the first shot<\/a> by pointing to a study by Edmonds<\/a> claiming that buying a hybrid isn’t necessarily the smart economic move that some believe. Ezra Klein fired back<\/a> by disputing some of the assumptions in the Edmonds’ report. I think he’s right in asserting that “The point is that those seeking to switch to hybrid vehicles are likely looking for a radical move to fuel efficiency after getting socked by high gas prices, not trying to save a few extra cents by making jumping from a fuel efficient economy car to another, more fuel efficient economy car.” I know that my wife and I would’ve loved to buy a Prius when car shopping last summer, but had to settle on a Hyundai Accent because of the price. We were still happy with the Accent’s 35mpg. Finally, Nick Beaudrot from Politics and War weighed in<\/a> with some other assumptions in the Edmonds study, and some pretty thorough calculations that led him to conclude that in most cases, the hybrid is the better buy. What can I add? Well, not much, but I’m awfully happy to see the issue of energy conservation arising in the political blogosphere…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: hybrid<\/a>, fuel efficiency<\/a>, economics<\/a><\/p>\n