In article <P8SZc.2466$Vl5.629@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.n et>,
jajabinks <user@example.net> wrote:

> Hybrids get about 55 mpg. My regular civic gets 35 mpg. Assuming 12,000
> miles driven annually, over 10 years, hybrids will consume 2,182
> gallons. My civic will consume 3,429 gallons. That's a difference of
> 1,247 gallons. Multiply that by 20,000 people, for example, and that's a
> lot of gas saved.

But it's no money saved, since the hybrid will cost much more up front
than that 1,247 gallons of gas costs.