There are many good reasons to buy a hybrid car. They are green and clean. They use less gasoline than conventional cars. They are rated as highly reliable cars in nationally recognized surveys by J.D. Powers and Consumer Reports.

Green Hybrid Electric Cars

Gasoline/battery hybrid vehicles operate with the battery engine at slow speeds, while accelerating and idling switching to the gasoline powered combustion engine at higher speeds therefore these hybrid vehicles produce much lower emission levels of nitrous oxides, hydrocarbons, particulate matter and carbon monoxide.
Because the gasoline/battery operated hybrids use less gasoline they emit less CO2 and greenhouse gases than conventional vehicles.
The hybrid plug in with no gas engine uses no fuel and emits zero emissions however unlike the gasoline/battery powered hybrids, the plug-in vehicles do not have the power to drive at higher speeds and cannot (at least with today’s technology) go for long distances without recharging the battery.
A January 28, 2008 cnn.com article quotes Bill Reinert, the manager of alternative-fuel vehicle development for Toyota, “today's hybrids "are still essentially gasoline vehicles. The importance of today's hybrids is that they're forming a bridge to future technology -- to what we will see 20 years from now. And it's a symbolic shift away from the gas-burning internal combustion engine. And that's a key, because the facts about climate change and the global oil markets are incontrovertible. We definitely need to get off of fossil fuels, and hybrid vehicles of both today and the future are an excellent way to do that."

Consume Less Gasoline Producing Less Carbon Dioxide

How does a hybrid vehicle give you 20-30 more miles per gallon than the conventional gas powered automobile?
Gasoline/battery operated hybrid vehicles are more fuel efficient than conventional cars because they have a much smaller and therefore more efficient gasoline engine than conventional gas-powered cars. The smaller gas powered engine can produce the power needed to accelerate quickly with smaller lighter parts by reducing the number of cylinders which makes the gasoline engine cleaner and more fuel efficient. When idling or driving at slower speeds the car is running on the battery it is essentially zero gasoline consumption.

Customer Satisfaction

According to J.D. Power, and Polk Automotive data shows that, “the customer satisfaction rate among buyers of hybrid vehicles is 80 to 90 percent."
The 2010 Honda Insight gas/battery hybrid was reported in Consumer Reports 2009 reliability survey as the most reliable car of all cars on the market. And in the same survey of 1.4 million car owners, five of the top eight family cars ranked highly for reliability were hybrids including the Toyota Prius, Ford Fusion Hybrid, Mercury Milan Hybrid, Nissan Altima Hybrid and Toyota Camry Hybrid.
It seems like a no-brainer to choose a hybrid vehicle if you are in the market for a new or used vehicle. You will be doing your part to protect the environment, you will lower the costs of buying gasoline, and you will have a highly reliable vehicle. Why would you purchase a conventional vehicle?