GM Daimler Hybrid gas savings minimal

Too often in California, we are caught debating whether to adopt technology-based standards or performance-based standards. When the legislature passed the Hybrid HOV bill last year, they chose both standards, whereby a vehicle had to be both hybrid and get a certain gas mileage to ride in the fast lanes. Good thing, because some hybrid cars won't save all that much gas. As Jalopnik notes:

In a market where the 60-mpg Toyota Prius sets our expectations for hybrid-drive fuel efficency, the GM-Daimler system, which can eke out 20mpg (just slightly more than a traditional V8) looks almost like a waste of pointy-headed resources.