Hybrid Vehicle Rebates Produce Scant Environmental Benefits, High Cost

Despite major costs to taxpayers in the US and Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits, a new study says. The study finds that hybrid sales have come largely at the expense of small, relatively fuel-efficient, conventional cars, rather than large SUVs, trucks and vans, which produce substantially greater carbon emissions. The study also finds that the majority of consumers who purchase hybrids were not motivated to do so by government rebates.

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