Agreed. Although some of these hybrid cars are kind of expensive. The Honda Civic hybrid car, Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius all start at $20k. That's more than most people want to spend on a Civic, economic or not. I think prices would have to be double what they are now before people really start to go out and look at cars like that.
One problem that could be addressed is all the trucks and SUVs that are out there now. SUVs and trucks are very popular now. They should start applying trucks and SUVs to the gas guzzler tax. I read an article that said a lot of the manufactures are coming out with more light trucks and SUVs just because they don't get taxed right now.
It's definitely a good time for people to start looking ahead into the future. Gas is only going to get more expensive, but it's going up faster than it ever has.