How come companies aren't coming out with hybrid cars when global warming is a big issue?

Answer 1

They are: Honda and Toyota have had them for years, and many other manufacturers now have them available, with more models being added every year. Have had MINE since 2005

Answer 2

Global warming is at the fore front because politicians found how to use a new platform to get re-elected. The world leadersuse it because they found ways to make money at it. This is a made up problem just like Global Cooling in the 1970's. Wake up people. I agree we need to be more efficient with our resources, and we should fine and jail companies who are dumping into our rivers maliciously. I want to stop the raiforest destruction, but to say that global warming is a serious man made issue and we need to destroy the American economy and bow down to the rest of the world certainly does not float my boat. Follow the money on this one and you will see that it is all for political gain and grant money for those scientists who profit off of the government if global warming stays at the front of the issues. Look deep into the Keoto (sp?) Treaty, first of all they took jets to a non-central resort location. Not very environmentally concious. THen in the parameters of the treaty they have a clause that makes it so you can buy or sell polution credits. This is all about shifting wealth and breaking down the United States. This is painfully obvious, just look at peoples agenda. The earth's mean temperature has risen .6 degrees C in the past 125 years. Greenland's icecaps have gotten colder in the past 10 years. The Scientists who do not gain anything on their posisition will tell you that the earth has a natural progression and this is what we are seeing. The UN report is made up of POLITICIANS not a good spread of scientists. THere are as many or more scientists who believe that man in NOT the reason and it is over hyped, but their voice is not heard in the LIberal Mainstream Media. This issue is 99% political, and an attempt to make the USA a socialist nation, and eventually communisim. WAKE UP AMERICA, IT IS TIME TO BE AMERICANS. FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE. STOP THE LIES

Answer 3

They have come out with hybrids. Which are not selling because they are nothing but a scam.

Hybrids are fuel efficient--more or less. But they are really just ordinary gas-driven cars with a pattery that will run the car part of the time--and is charged from the engine. an expensive system that doesn't save as much fuel as a well designed hig-efficiency conventional engine.

So why th ehoopla? Because for the corporations--and the current administration, its a good way of appearing to do something--without actually addressing the real problem--the use of fossil fuels. Propaganda, in oter words.

But--the good news is that we are going to have real electric cars within 2-3 years--from independant entrepreneurs, not the existing companies.

The real challenge will be to shhift to alternative technologies for electricity production. But we have the technology to do it--and it will be expensive to make the change--but cheaper, as well as non-pollluting, in th elong run.

And, BTW, that is making the oil companies VERY nervous. They are living on borroweed time and they know it.

Answer 4

Companies are coming out with hybrids but not because of global warming. Global warming is only Al Gore's way to stay relevant. And of course several other people follow along blindly, thinking he's relevant.
The reason they are making hybrids is because it's politically correct.
So far hybrids use more energy than they save in cost.

Answer 5

They arent as common, low priced, and widely available as they should be! Hopefully we'll swith to a bio fuel like Ethanol. The Government is against biofuels. South America would sell us a biofuel made from sugar cane but there is a 100% tax on it, not only does oil companies not have to a tax, the government keeps giving them money even as they hike up the price! Ethanol is becoming more common in the midwest, hopefully it will soon become the fuel of choice, farmers could make alot of money growing things like corn or wheat that becomes the biofuel. Hydrogen is an even cleaner fuel-the biproduct is water! Ethanol is surely better than oil and more attainable than hydrogen.

Answer 6

Because hybrids don't really address the issue of CO2 emissions head on. They are merely a more efficient way of burning hydrocarbons under the hood to get from point A to point B. Plus they require expensive and dangerous batteries which have to be carefully disposed of once they get old.

The lack of lightweight, inexpensive and environmentally benign batteries is the main reason solar and wind power haven't really taken off by the way......there is no means of efficiently storing electricity created by excess solar and wind generating capacity, you have to match what you generate with what you need at the moment.

Answer 7

What good can these things do? They have two power systems and when one is working the other one is dead weight that is a drag on efficiency. Where is any gain in that?

Answer 8

beacause the technology is far to expensive and the majority of the market will not pay the price... thus it's a poor business investment