Great post steved28. I will also fall in the same boat as you here becuase I will be looking for a 2nd car for my family here in the next couple of years and hope to get a PHEV.

I see oil consumption was down 3.2% in the US last month despite the cold weather on the east coast. I think we should take advantage of this and add a $1.00 a gallon national tax on gas to get it up above $4.00 and end this maddness once and for all. Take the money from the tax revenue and give even bigger tax cuts for people who buy PHEV and use it to help to continue to fund alternative fule research.

$4 gass to a car that gets 40 mpg is the same as $2 gas in a car that gets 20 mpg.