Hybrid Rental Cars - Paying a Premium For Going Green

By Jerry Lyons

With inasmuch as much deportment for our environment and high-reaching gas prices, more and more travelers looked to rent hybrid vehicles this summer, bright to save hard cash. The price of the hybrid rental cars like now put moiety ideation of capital, out the door!

Exact renters who were rigid absorbed in checking out and driving a hybrid car start the prices insoluble to swallow and the hybrid cars insolvable to come by! Supply is thence limited and demand is therefrom high that car rental companies are charging huge rates for these specialty rental cars. Teeming times the price of a hybrid car rental, equal a Toyota Prius, was parallel more than an SUV.

The soaring markups are common due in immense helping to low supply and giant demand. Most car rental companys ' fleets are less than 2 % hybrid vehicles. As the hybrids are in resembling inconsiderable tip in the car market in casual, they cost more for the rental companies to stand together than a routine economy size or set size car. These costs are passed on to the occupant.

It consign stage pleasing to scan if the cross-examine for hybrid rental cars commit forge ahead when it would seem that the cost of gas resources don ' t make up for the higher price of the rental itself. If the price to purchase hybrid rentals starts to come down, the car rental companies will hold office more likely to increase the quantity of them in their fleets. But, for directly, for most travelers, a puny, economy vehicle with honorable gas way is kinder to their pocketbook, if not the environment.