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Honda's peppy two-seat Insight travels 600 miles on a tiny tank, a boon to the greenhouse-gassed planet. Toyota's Prius, a sleek five-seater, gets 52 m.p.g. in city driving and is up to 90% cleaner than the average car. U.S. carmakers, reluctant latecomers, have been shamed into promising hybrid models. But will these fuel sippers sell to a pollutants-be-damned nation enraptured by showy sport utes...
...emissions. So far, Toyota has a five-month waiting list for its Prius (Latin for "to go before"), and it has logged 7,300 orders since the car's July launch. It will easily sell out this year's small production run of 12,000 cars. Sales of the Insight, introduced last December, are slower--about 3,500--partly because many dealerships can't get the cars, and partly because the two-seater isn't as practical as the Prius. Measured against the 17 million cars and trucks sold yearly in the U.S., it is a modest beginning. A major...
...takes over, thus minimizing the pollution caused by stop-and-go driving. The gasoline engine powers the battery and kicks in for acceleration. When the car coasts or brakes, the motor becomes a generator, capturing the energy that would normally be lost and transforming it into electricity. In the Insight, a lightweight but superefficient three-cylinder, 63-h.p. gas engine supplies most of the oomph, and the electric motor offers a 10-h.p. boost when needed...
Techno-savvy fans have embraced the hybrids, flooding Internet chat rooms with talk of torque and throttle response, boasting about mileage. "Kick Some Gas!" urges one site, Priusenvy.com Senator Robert Bennet of Utah, chairman of the Republican High-Tech Task Force, fills his Insight's gas tank once a month. "It's the ideal commuter car," he says. But he has yet to persuade his fellow legislators to make the switch...
...civil rights movement in the 1960s, and we continue to allow race to blind us to the goals of the Palestinians. But we are not powerless against these habits. By thinking about them and criticizing them, we can rid ourselves of this distorted lens and gain true insight into the aims and aspirations of people in the Middle East...