Before you make a comment, LDK, read the article and actually think carefully:

Its not an electric truck, its a diesel that gets 32.5 combined mpgs. The diesel-electric hybrid version will get 40mpg and cost about $30,000 ($5,000 over the non-hybrid version). One is spending $5,000, not $15,000, for the hybrid powertrain.

And lets do the math:

80,000 miles at 40mpg: 80000/40=2,000.00 gallons of diesel fuel used.
80,000 miles at 27mpg: 80000/40=2,962.96 gallons of diesel fuel used.

2962.96-2000=a difference of 962.96 gallons of fuel used

962.96 gallons * 3.28 per gallon of diesel fuel (based on current DOE statistics as of 2/11/2008) = a savings of $3158.50 over 80,000 miles.

So, LDK, your post was typical anti-hybrid libel.