Help make hybrid cars more affordable

As of today, the $2000.00 tax credit for hybrid vehicles is going to be reduced to $500.00 next year, and phased out completely the following year. Instead, taxpayers are going to give billions to oil companies.

If you would be willing to add your name to a letter to your Senator demanding the continuation of tax credits for hybrids, send an an e-mail to soultek@soultek.com. Please note your state of residence. The Hybrid Car Blog is the blog of Soultek.com. Your privacy will always be respected and never shared without your explicit consent. Or, join the Hybrid Car Club and add "Tell my Senator" in the notes.

23 Billion reasons to buy a hybrid car

Hybrid vehicles can change the world today.

The only question, today, is cost-effectiveness. So, we're supposed to wait until fuel cells, we're told by the American auto establishment?

How cost-effective are fuel cells?

Instead of giving billions to the oil industry with the Energy Bill, perhaps Congress should give it to GM to produce some hybrid vehicle "Freedom Fighter" fleets. Buy this hybrid car, end foreign oil dependency, make America stronger.

Instead we're asking filthy rich oil barons to solve our problems, until fuel cells?

Who does Congress represent? American automakers invested far too much of their future into SUVs because Congress made it profitable for them to do so - at the expense of America's national security.

While I believe in laissez-faire economics, foreign-oil dependency has led to two wars in Iraq, terrorism against the United States, and life-shortening pollution.

I'd say its quite clear that gas-guzzling products have put America's peace and property rights at risk, without question. America's transportation habits have significantly increased America's dependence upon foreign oil, while exposing Americans to significant physical and economic risk.

When Congress gives billions to the oil industry, an industry that saw $23 billion in profits in just the first 3 months of this year, to help, that's 23 billion reasons for me to demand nothing less than hybrid car efficiency now.

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Save the $2,000 Hybrid Vehicle Tax credit!

Several people have written e-mails to me expressing outrage with the House of Representatives for not extending the hybrid vehicle tax credit.

The battle isn't over. Even the President is lobbying for these credits to be added to the bill that is before the Senate. There seems to be popular support for these credits.

At this point I'm not sure what anyone can do, other than contact the politicians that are getting paid to represent you. If you would like to send your Senator or Congressperson an e-mail letting them know you support tax credits for hybrid cars, you can find their e-mail address by clicking here.

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Big Oil Profits $23 billion in 3 months

So, the Energy Bill is going to give billions in incentives to the oil industry to help make oil less profitable?

"I have been following this industry for 18 years and I have never seen anything like this," said Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit. "It's like they're printing money," stated Gheit when responding to questions about the $23 billion the top 4 big oil companies profited the first 3 months of this year. (DetNews)

How can the Energy Bill be seen as anything but a joke?

The world needs alternatives to oil, not richer oil companies. Yet tax credits for hybrid cars, diesel and other clean energy technologies - the only consumer friendly incentives of the President's proposal - won't even be part of the bill if the Senate doesn't add them to the House's version.