"Huge numbers of American car buyers are willing to put themselves on a waiting list for three, four, six months to get a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight. Hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars can't be made fast enough to meet the demand for them."

I took my mother to buy a Prius one afternoon, she drove it home that night. A couple of weeks later we went to buy a Pruis & bought it that night & dorve it home the next day.
The waiting time is now going down because they're becoming much more popular. Chrysler years ago came out with the slant 6 which saved the company at the time because it would run forever, you just couldn't kill it. The big 3 should be watching this trend, lest it kill them.

I was pissed that the auto industry didn't offer more in the way of hybrid choices to their consuming public. I'm also pissed that the government is slack of it's tax incentives for buying fuel eco cars. It gave some but then reduces it depending on how many vechiles the manufactur sells & it doesn't look like it will repeat the incentives this year, at least not yet. Buy American, why? You couldn't pay me to buy an American vechile.

Cutting auto fuel efficiency & admissions in the US alone would be a huge step in the reduction of global warming world wide. At this point there ought to be a law or at least a decent incentive!

Barry