Originally Posted by cjl1973

I spent almost the entire last year exclusively on a bicycle, grocery shopping, going to work, visiting my family. I rode upwards of 30 miles on some days. This year I upgraded to a Ford Festiva, and a 300SD.
That said, my brother has an Insight, which is a cool car, but not much bigger than my bicycle. Our mass-transit sucks in St. Louis. His car made me think, if auto makers can make hybrids, which are more or less subsidized by the makers anyway, and they are all jumping on the bandwagon with them, why is it that there are no diesel hybrids? Drop a diesel engine in an Insight or a Prius? What kind of milage would you get? VW gets like 50mpg with the TDI Golf, what would you get with a hybrid version?. Seems to me that the US consumers are not going to give up thier cars very easily, so why not build them something that can be run on something renewable, and fix the problem that way? I don't want to ride the bus, I love driving. I think the whole thing boils down to the fact that we all want to go where we want, when we want, and not have to worry about well can I get the connecting bus at this intersection to make it to work on time if I decide to hit the snooze an extra time this morning?