The savings on hybrids will only go up as the price of Gasoline does go up.
It's 2.38 where I am right now. It wasn't that last year, and it wasn't last years price the year before.
I said it before and I'll say it again <$2.00 gasoline is just history. Soon <2.50 will be history.
how are you calculating savings?
If one car gets 26 MPG and one car gets 46 MPG, and you drive 30 miles to work every day, and that's 1200 miles per month for work, that's 26 gallons for the efficent vehicle and 46 gallons for the regular. (weird)
regardless, that's 20 gallons a month. that's, at the going rate, $48 a month, or 571 a year. If they cost 3,000 more, then that's 6 years to buy them back.
Plus energy tax credits.
Plus, ALL the other driving you'll do, plus the fact that they get better milage in city driving.
Plus, get the fuck out, they're better for the environment.
But no, they'll get very little resale value, unless the price of gas goes higher than most people expect, and they go into quite high demand.