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Join Tom Hanks, Larry David & Other Celebs in the Hybrid Movement

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Larry David's HybridThe Huffington Post has created the HuffPost Hybrid Movement, a virtual photo album for everyone to post pictures & captions of their hybrid cars. To help encourage the movement, they've rounded up a few celebs & high-profile people to pimp their rides. Larry David, tongue ever in-cheek, quips "I needed something to make me feel smugly superior." Tom Hanks goes off on a hybrid rant, saying, "I love my hybrid, it's got a battery and a gas engine and a computer, a super computer, you know the computer batman had? Well they shrunk it down now and they put it into this car, and it's like you're driving the batmobile in this thing. It tells you when the battery is driving or the battery is recharging when the gas.now talk about freedom dave, another one, I've owned this car for a month and I had to fill it up with gas just the other day, I put 14 dollars worth of gas in my car, that's how much it cost to fill up, in l.a. I bought two gallons of gas. Now I'm not lying it did cost me 14 bucks, If I had it now I could drive home to l.a. I'm not going to do that now because it could take awhile and rita gets cranky in the car for along time, but its got a computer on it that thing the batman thing." Whew -- that's a mouthful! Arianna Huffington brings us back to earth with, "Driving a gas-sipping hybrid is a smart and easy way to help end America's dependence on foreign oil. So my Toyota Prius is an automotive two-fer: a pleasure to drive and patriotic to boot." Hybrid drivers everywhere are encouraged to snap a picture, load it up on the site and leave a message about how much they love it. Let's hope it's as contagious as actually owning the cars has been. [HuffPost Hybrid Movement] via [Ecorazzi]

I love my Prius!

Thank you for helping showcase the many advantages of driving hybrid cars. After owning Prius's for nearly 5 years, I am surprised when people still ask me if I have to plug it in. It makes me realize we have much work to do in educating consumers!

I applaud your wonderful efforts in pursuading people to discover the joy of green living,
Peggy Farabaugh
VermontWoodsStudios.com