#5 Weekly Assignment

Weekly Written Assignment 5.1 - Hybrid Cars
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The hybrid vehicles have quickly become a part of our culture. Vehicles powered by electricity and gasoline are the rage for this new technology. As with anything new, until you have it, use it, and fall in love with it, it’s hard to wrap yourself around it.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are now parking the hybrid vehicles in their driveways. This has happened so fast that misinformation has caused more than just a little confusion about the value of this technology. Industry analysts are predicting the continued growth estimating for 600,000 to 800,000 hybrid units sold in the United States by 2010.


The hybrid is becoming a part of our popular culture and it is being achieved by creating a need to meet the desires of a growing population of young adults with available income flows who are concerned with the environmental affects of technology. The major hybrid manufactures such as Chrysler, GM, Ford, and Toyota have spent millions of dollars in advertising to justify the cost-benefit effect of the hybrid to the masses. They have been successful at building the character of the hybrid vehicle. I am included in the tail end of the baby boomers and even I am becoming more aware of the long-term valve of this technology.


I don’t think that all the kinks are worked out of this technology; the big automakers still have some selling to do to win over the American people when purchasing a new vehicle, but the hybrids are here to stay.

References
Bradley Berman, Editor. (2006, March 23). Top 10 Hybrid Myths. Retrieved August 2, 2009, from HybridCars: http://www.hybridcars.com/decision/top-10-hybrid-myths.html

Brown, R. (2005). Profiles of Popular Cultures: A Reader. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Sorapure, M. P. (2007). Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall.