The Solution to High Gas Prices Is Right Here

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As gasoline prices skyrocket to $2.00 and beyond, Honda's new gas-sipping Civic Hybrid is looking more and more like the solution to high gas prices. The best part, it's not experimental. It's available right now.

News background:

The Honda Civic Hybrid combines a gasoline engine with an electric motor to deliver the best mileage of any 5-passenger car in the world. Consumers are so concerned about rising gasoline prices, sales of Hybrids nationwide more than doubled between January and February.

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  INTERVIEWS & NATURAL SOUND: Robert Bienenfeld, American Honda Product
  Planning, Thad Malesh, J.D. Power Alternative Power Technology

  VIDEO: Honda Civic Hybrid on the road, animation showing how the hybrid
  system works with the gasoline engine, electric motor and battery,
  interiors and exteriors of the car. Video of Honda's first hybrid vehicle,
  the Insight.

   Video Provided By: American Honda

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PRNewswire -- March 11