I agree with USFslim, in California, several years ago the legislature passed a bill that said something like, 25% of the vehicles sold there had to be hybrid/ electric whatevers, if you don't sell those cars, California will not let you sell ANY cars there. The problem was nobody wanted them as they were expensive and gas was still relatively cheap, many of these cars were sold at a loss (I'm not sure that the Prius is not one of them) there was no market. The state started rolling over almost imediately on this law. Then "poof" in 7 months time, there's a market.

I'm sorry, I meant "The People's Republik of California"