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Can A Hybrid Car Really Save You Money? Tired of what's called pain at the pump? I bet you are. Well, don't worry; the price of gas isn't going back to .25 a gallon. That's for sure. So what do you do? How do you keep yourself from getting a second job so you can make sure you can fill up your tank? You could carpool. That would require you to do a lot of scheduling and coordination. Hopefully, you are good with adding because you will have to equally divide the price of the gas between all of the riders. You will also have to make sure that either your car or the person's car you're riding in is in good working condition. Otherwise, you could be putting yourself or the other passengers in a lot of danger. You could buy a smaller car and sacrifice style, size, and reputation, but who wants to drive around in a dumpy little car when they could be driving a gigantic SUV? With all of the options that exist for saving gas, there is one that makes a lot more sense than all of the others: Get a hybrid car. However, does a hybrid car really save you money? There are reasons why the hybrid car does save you money and reasons why it doesn't. The hybrid car should save you hundreds per week and thousands per year on gas. However, if you are the type of person who is not into keeping track of how much you spend per week driving back and forth from work, you may not be able to truly appreciate the savings that come from a hybrid car. All of the time, the news is reporting on some fortunate man, who chooses to select a hybrid car as the car he would own next. He wonders if he will actually save money, and to his surprise, he saves a whole lot. But then there are the stories of people who purchase hybrid cars, but they actually end up saving very little. That is because some of these people may be highway drivers as opposed to local commuters. A hybrid car repowers its battery by stopping. So if you are a highway driver, you may also not be able to appreciate how much money you save with a hybrid car. Many people say that whether you experience great monetary savings by purchasing a hybrid car has to do with a lot more than most people think. And it really does. Some people who are stay-at-home moms for instance, don't even consider that it might not make a difference whether they own a hybrid car or not. Really, they just don't go too many places. But does a hybrid car really save you money? Yes, but you have to pay attention to how much money you are spending before you buy a hybrid car and after you buy a hybrid car. Then you will see the savings for what they really are. And I'm not saying you have to be an accountant to save money either. I'm just saying that if you don't see the savings, you might think they are not there when they really are.

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Tokyo to exempt tax for next-generation green cars (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Tokyo's local government, seeking to fight global warming, said Thursday it planned to exempt taxes on next-generation green vehicles such as electric cars and plug-in hybrids once they hit the market.

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Tokyo to exempt tax for next-generation green cars (SpaceDaily)

TOKYO, Jan 8 (AFP) Jan 08, 2009 Tokyo's local government, seeking to fight global warming, said Thursday it planned to exempt taxes on next-generation green vehicles such as electric cars and plug-in hybrids once they hit the market.

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PlanetGreen.Discovery.com Lists Green Earth Technologies' G-OIL as a Top Thing to Look For in 2009 Green Cars (The Auto Channel)

STAMFORD, Conn., January 7, 2009: Green Earth Technologies (Pink Sheets: GETG), a leading manufacturer and marketer of "green" environmentally safe consumer packaged goods products, is pleased to announce that their G-OIL(TM) has been chosen as one of Eric Leech's "7 Things to Look for in 2009 Green Cars" on PlanetGreen.Discovery.com.

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PlanetGreen.Discovery.com Lists Green Earth Technologies' G-OIL(TM) as a Top Thing to Look For in 2009 Green Cars (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Green Earth Technologies , a leading manufacturer and marketer of "green" environmentally safe consumer packaged goods products, is pleased to announce that their G-OIL has been chosen as one of Eric Leech's "7 Things to Look for in 2009 Green Cars" on PlanetGreen.Discovery.com.

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Green Fuels, Cars Get Boost from Cow Pie Power, the Queen and New EV Charging Hub (GreenBiz)

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The drive to green mobility got a boost into the New Year with news of heightened efforts to produce fuels from a variety of waste products, word that Queen Elizabeth's Bentleys are going green and the launch of an electric vehicle charging network in Northern California.

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Green given sendoff to Nebraska (Dayton News)

The cars and pickups lined the west end of Mulberry St. in the Oakwood subdivision Sunday afternoon as family, friends, coaches and well-wishers stopped in to give the home team quarterback a sendoff. Cody Green will fly to Nebraska on Wednesday, Jan. 7 to begin his life as a collegian.

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Greenbelt Metro station reopened to cars Jan. 20 (Baltimore Sun)

Officials of the Washington Metro subway system said yesterday that they will open the parking lot of the Greenbelt station to passenger cars on Inauguration Day, reversing an earlier decision to reserve it for charter buses.

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