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The premise of this article was don't rush to buy a fuel efficient car because gas prices are probably, temporarily high:

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At kbb.com, the Web portal for Kelley Blue Book, searches for hybrids and electrics jumped 73 percent from the weekend of Feb. 19-20 to Feb. 27-28. Traffic to compact cars as a segment blossomed 46 percent in the same period. "Among individual models, every compact car we tracked was up a minimum of 20 percent week-over-week, and the Ford Fiesta jumped 77 percent," Nerad said.

Searches for fuel sippers such as the Hyundai Elantra, Ford Focus and Honda Accord each jumped more than 60 percent. On the hybrid/electric side, increases were more dramatic, he said. The all-electric Nissan Leaf jumped 154 percent, while the Toyota Prius jumped 86 percent.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110310/...#ixzz1GGxaaiYf

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Whistling past the graveyard.

This week I was going into work and one of the Jeep fans came in a large, Tahoe class, vehicle. I ran into him later that morning and he said, "Yea, we get about 8 miles to the gallon . . . But my wife's new Jeep is a piece of cr*p with only 30,000 miles and an engine and transmission change already." I just had to smile and get back to my work.

Bob Wilson