If I Ever Come into Power...

I will ban Prius from the highway.  If the Prius owners don't abide by the law, I will give the Department of Transportation the right to launch missiles at them so we can get rid of those effers from ruining the traffic flow in the highway system. 

Hybrid cars, especially the Prius, is the biggest Marketing scam ever.  It is the epitome of false advertising executed to perfection.  If you drive a Prius, I'm sorry, you're an idiot.  Let me explain.  

The biggest selling point of Prius is its eco-friendliness.  Just look at this atrocity that is a Prius TV commercial: 

It's Prius!  It's better for the environment from all the other normal cars!  It'll bring back Bambi from the dead!  BUT IT'S NOT.  THAT IS THE BIGGEST MYTH ABOUT PRIUS, AND HYBRIDS IN GENERAL.  

The hybrid technology is a solution-in-progress to the big problem "how do we make environmentally-friendly cars?"  For quite some time, there have been different attempts at trying to solve that problem -- solar-powered cars, electric cars, hydrogen fuel cars, etc..  While these cars do generate less greenhouse gas emissions, these machines utterly fail at one thing -- being a car.  Such technology aren't practical enough for us to consider these as a viable option for our every day life.  How would you like to charge your electric car overnight EVERY DAY to recharge its batteries and 10x your electricity bill?  If you run out of hydrogen fuel, and there is no refilling station w/in 100-mile radius from where you are, what do you do? 

That's where the hybrid technology comes in -- it pairs up the electric motor with a petroleum motor that both generates electricity to charge the electric motor and powers the car when the electric motor does not have enough juice.  This definitely make electric cars a lot more practical, however, YOU STILL HAVE A PETROLEUM MOTOR THAT BURNS FOSSIL FUEL.  While you have effectively addressed the byproduct from proposed solutions (i.e. make the cars more like cars), you have failed to solve the actual problem at hand (i.e. make cars w/ lower greenhouse gas emissions). 

There is nothing wrong with such a problem-solving process in itself.  Big problems take a lot of time and resources to solve.  It's a process -- you need to go through many failures, iterations, and proof-of-concepts to arrive at an effective solution.  BUT, I think it's wrong to take the half-baked solution and masquerade it as a final solution just because you see the potential for commercialization in the idea, especially when you're PITCHING THE IDEA AS AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION to the consumers.

So, basically, if you drive a Prius, that means you're a hippie-inspired pompous hipster prick that got tricked into paying premium (Prius isn't cheap) to be self-righteous about the evils of industrialism.  Yet, you're killing just any many trees, and you're only fueling the evils of industrialism by allowing Toyota's wallet to get fatter by taking advantage of your ignorance.  Cheerio!