LOL, I didn't exactly say rubbish.

Pure electic cars... yeah, so long as our electricity comes from coal, are no better than gas drive vehicles. Both from a carbon footprint perspective and from a pollution perstpective.

Hybrids are okay... because they still burn the cleaner of the two hydrocarbons... but if a hybrid SUV gets 30 mpg, and you could get the job done with a pure gasoline guzzling Metro that gets 50 mpg, then you're just pretending to be green.