If the goverment gave you a $5000 rebate for buying hybrid car whould you buy one?

Question

A great way to combat global warming

Answer 1

You bet. I am sick of paying over $50 a week to fill up. So ill take the $5000 and save that in gas alone and im looking pretty good.

Answer 2

I think tax incentives are a great idea to get a technology "jump started". And if you are in the market for one anyway, take advantage of it.

I have driven a Prius, Camry hybrid and Lexus 400h and they are all great cars!

I think everyone that is concerned about global warming, should be doing everything they can to make a difference.

When gas prices reach $4, $5 and $6 a gallon next year and the year after (It will probably hit $4/gallon this summer), the extra $3000 you paid for the car will pay for itelf and then technically MAKE YOU MONEY!

If you can qualify for a car loan to buy a hybrid, and have a job that you can afford the payment, your savings in gas might just make the entire car payment for you depending on what gas prices reach, and how far you commute. It would be silly if you can afford it, not to buy one.

Oil supplies on earth are running out and demand for gasoline in china and india is increasing every hour. Based on basic economics, and supply and demand, if global supply of oil first met demand in 2004, what do you think gas prices will be in 5 years?

Go buy a hybrid now, and get the tax incentive!

Answer 3

Heck yeah! I bought a Prius Hybrid, and I get 50 miles plus a gallon AND I got a $3,200 tax credit back on my car. I'm very happy with how I lucked out on the deal. Unfortunately, I don't think the tax credit is still available, much less $5K, but it'd be nice if it did. Basically, I got the navigation and hands free cellphone package and it was about $30K. I probably wouldn't have spent that much if I didn't know a tax credit was due. However, the HOV lane is still open when I'm driving by myself. YAY! Imagine this, you walk up to your vehicle and the door unlocks without you shuffling for your keys, you sit down and push a power button to start your car (without shuffling for your keys). Then you need to call your spouse to tell him/her that you're on your way home, so you either 1) push a button on your steering wheel or 2) use the voice dialer. Then you need to stop by the closet Target on your way home. You pull it up on your GPS navigation and you're set. Ten minutes you're home because your French, Spanish, or English navigator told you the quickest way. That's my Prius Hybrid. By the way, that 23" TV I just bought in its big box just fit in the trunk b/c the seats fold down flat, kind of like a pickup bed.

For all the cynics, gotta love freedom of speech :).

Answer 4

That would depend on what the same car costs that is a non hybrid. If the hybrid costs $5000 more that's no deal.

And why should my taxes go to pay for a rebate for you to buy a hybrid car? Are you one of those people who believe government programs are free--that no one ever has to pay for them?

Now if the manufacturer wants to give you rebate that is a different story. When a store puts something on sale they may be just decreasing their profit margin. Or they are counting on selling more at a lower margin and gaining profit due to increased sales volume.

If my representatives in Congress vote to give you a rebate for buying a hybrid car I'm going to vote against them in the next election.

Answer 5

It's obvious some of you haven't even driven a hybrid...I don't own one but I've driven a few and I'll tell you vehichles like the highlander hybrid have a definite place in the market today. The thing is crazy smooth with the CVT and the 4WDi is one fast puppy. Plus it's rated to tow 3500lbs(one normal midsized car).

I'd definately buy one. Can't argue with an SUV getting 27 freeway 31 city either. As for the 2008 Highlander...Looks awesome.

The Prius is OK but I'm not much of a little car person...

Answer 6

I would trade in my auto if I could get a $5000 rebate on a fixed price auto. I would like the gov to give the rebate not the car dealer. We should have inexpensive autos for new drivers, $6000 per auto for electric or hybrid cars. Teens learning to drive should only get one of these to teach/encourage them to think green.

Answer 7

I would if they had a really cool, but still affordable sports car. I am a die-hard convertible fan so I'd need a nice hybrid Miata, Solstice, or Skyy. My Miata is already great on gas, it takes $25 to fill it up even when gas is $3.20/gallon. I'd only need to fill up once a month, LOL!

Answer 8

Why mandate one technologies over yet another? There are already differing hybrid designs. some are more beneficial useful than others (analyze the fairly-hybrid Chevy Silverado to the Toyota Prius, as an party) - why ought to a label on the vehicle in the present day get you a governmental rebate? (it truly is corresponding to how flex-gasoline automobiles, the position the producer receives a eating position credit for the ethanol use, used to maintain them from paying expenditures for too low of a fleet regularly occurring MPG, even although over ninety% of those flex-gasoline automobiles will by no ability use something superior than the E10 that each and every one automobiles can use...) convinced, there's a gasoline-guzzler tax. perchance you'll favor this more beneficial? A intense gasoline performance vehicle already will pay a lot less in gasoline taxes on the pump. (some states already unfairly charge hybrids more beneficial in excise taxes or licensing expenditures for this loss in gasoline tax sales, even although they do no longer charge different intense-mpg/non-hybrid automobiles those larger expenditures...) besides, the gasoline-useful hybrid fashions are already promoting about as quickly as sellers get them. Why ought to the authorities supply out funds if the vehicle is going to be bought anyhow? the present device of phasing out the tax credit for hybrid automobiles after a particular style is bought is probably sturdy adequate. astounding technique for saving gasoline is basically to mandate an throughout-the-board advance in CAFE criteria, and by no ability supply any particular interest on the type of technologies used. the present idea, in my opinion, is somewhat too modest and takes too lengthy, yet a minimum of it finally places automobiles/SUVs on an same gasoline economic device criteria as automobiles.

Answer 9

it's a great idea...
but in the u.s its a different story
the only why you could apply this program is by law!!!
like an ultimatum of 5 years to change to green car.
still... theres alot of cars in the u.s... this process will take much more then 5 years....more like 20 years...if so..
in israel today the govermant start to apply an experiment of 5 years with green car manufactures, to check the option of moving all the: industry,cars,power supply, to green energy(sun, water, seaweed, green diesel(israeli patent))
couse israel is so small and no more than 2 milion cars on roads... we able to make the change no more than 5 years.
alsso allmost 90% of our sewage is recycled for agricolture.

i say, start to work on that idea...

Answer 10

Hybrid cars are a joke. And a not very funny one.
Their efficiency is not great enough to offset the increased production costs (using fuel), transportation costs (using fuel), repair costs, and added vehicular expense.