USA Today tried so hard to put lipstick on the hybird car pig today with the headline: “Cost savings may not offset higher price for hybrids.”
A study funded by USA Today and conducted by Edmunds, the online resource for automotive information, found that even after all factoring in of the Federal tax credits you get for buying an eco-friendly car, the alleged gas savings for not buying a big gas-guzzling SUV, and the good karma you generate driving around in your Prius golf cart, the additional $5,000 you spend to buy a hybrid car isn’t worth it.
Yeah, what a shock…
The most striking example of this is the similarly-sized Toyota Prius vs. Toyota Corolla: To get your money’s worth out of the more expensive hybrid Prius, gas would have to be $10.10 per gallon. Either you’d have to pay over $10 per gallon or you’d have to drive 66,500 miles per year at current gas prices (avg. $2.50 per gallon) in your hybrid.
So, I have to pay an extra five grand to get a hybrid to save the environment. However, to save the environment I have to put about 45,000 additional miles a year on my car… and over those additional 45,000 driving miles I will basically spew the same amount of deadly carbon monoxide into the atmosphere.
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: It makes more sense to buy a Toyota Camry, save $5,000, get a bigger car, and use that extra five grand to buy three and a half YEARS worth of gas. Hybrid cars are a feel-good scam.

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has launched Conservative Grapevine, a daily digest of the best right-of-center blog links.
If you’d like to console the emotional senator from Ohio, go to Console George, where the campaign is on to send Sen. George Voinovich some tissues. Michelle Malkin has some tissue samples and other links about Senator Sniff Sniff.
And Carnival of the Recipes #41 (hey, that’s a DMB song, #41) is still up at Fresh as a Daisy, and my darling first-blorn has done a great job compiling the recipes. Go see.

Well, I guess since everyone is talking about finding out who the mysterious “Deep Throat” really is, I guess I should say something.
First off, before this, if I had to guess who Deep Throat was, I would have said Ben Stein. That’s because I can only name three people who from memory who worked for the Nixon administration – Ben Stein, Spiro Agnew, and G. Gordon Liddy. I’m pretty certain G. Gordon Liddy didn’t do it, so, after a coin flip, my guess is Ben Stein.
Then again, I guess President Ford is another I could name who was involved with Nixon, and he would have the motive…
Well, too late. We know who Deep Throat is, and it’s some guy I never heard of. I mean, all this happened before I was born, and I’m not ever sure what it’s about. This guy talked to some reporters – I think they were played by Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte in a movie – to uncover some scandal about a gate – a scandal so horrible that it sunk a president right after he swept 49 states in reelection.
Well, that’ll teach Nixon to create the EPA.
At least now that chapter in history that I never bothered reading has been closed.
Now let’s go back to talking about war.

The Supreme Court threw out the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm in relation to Enron on Tuesday because the “jury instructions were too broad.”
According to the AP “The decision was a defeat for the Bush administration, which had declared prosecution of white-collar criminals a high priority following accounting scandals at major corporations.”
That’s right, kids. It’s all Dubya’s fault. No, he’s too dumb so it must’ve been the evil of Karl Rove!
I forget… is Karl Rove the Emperor to Dubya’s Darth Vader or is it the other way around?
While you’re trying to process that Star Wars analogy, check out the always lucid Homocon‘s witty take on the Supreme Court’s decision