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There's a lot of misinformation about hybrids out there.
I drive 65 to 75 in my Prius on my daily commute up the 101 freeway, with 35 miles freeway driving and less than 10 miles city driving, and average 50.1 MPG (that's over 10 tankfuls). The NiMH batteries in my Prius are fully recyclable, and present less of an environmental hazard than the small lead acid battery that is used to start it. They are warrantied for 150,000 miles or 8 years in California.
And the Prius handily beats the VW in MPG, even with a lower BTU content fuel.
The "clean diesels" have their own maintenance issues, with many of them requiring chemical canisters (urea?) with periodic replacement required (at every oil change, according to BMW). I haven't found out how VW is dealing with the extra NOx emissions to make the Jetta TDI a 50-state diesel.
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