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Romm 5 (0:30)
Topic(s): Car Culture / Efficiency / Electric & Hybrid
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Well, I think a combination of the war in Iraq, the high price of gasoline, and growing concern of global warming is driving kind of the perfect storm towards interest in fuel economy. I think it's important to understand that you could have always bought a fuel-efficient vehicle in the past, but they tended to be small and underpowered. It's only been with the development of hybrid cars that you could get a fuel-efficient car that had high performance and long range and other features that people find attractive.