It has been said that not enough people are doing all they can do to struggle against the energy crisis. Hybrid cars can help, but definitely not enough people are driving them. Here are a few issues related to the energy crisis and how hybrid cars can help.

The U.S. isn't doing enough really. The United States consumes more fossil fuels than any other country in the world. However, most people think that all of our energy problems can be solved if we would only look further into the oil deposits in Alaska or if we made full use of the latest discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hybrid cars can have the result of us not having to use other sources of energy to maintain economic growth. Hybrid cars won't cause Americans to consume an excessive amount of fossil fuel. Instead, hybrid cars make Americans consume less fossil fuel.

Gas consumers just accept increasing fuel prices. People used to care that fuel prices are much higher now than they were a few years ago. Now, however, people just accept the higher prices. Furthermore, in the meantime, cars are getting bigger and bigger. Vehicle manufacturers are making trucks and SUV's, which consume more gas at the higher prices.

These cars use more fuel, but you wouldn't believe just how many people will not give up their fuel-guzzling SUV. Hybrid cars do eventually cost their owners less to own than conventional vehicles do. So there is no need to be concerned about settling for being over-charged by the oil companies.

Soon there will be an end to the "cheap oil period". Soon, we could all be in over our heads, because not only will we be in an fossil fuel crisis, but in a peak oil crisis too. During this peak oil crisis period, there will be gas shortages and natural gas shortages too. The major countries will need to compete against each another for whatever small amount of fuel remains.

Therefore, everyone may have some problems, and countries may have to fight for who gets oil and who does not. The peak gas crisis can be put off, if more people just purchased hybrid cars. Hybrid cars ensure that people are not always having to be looking for gas. Additionally, there are advances being made to hybrid cars all the time.

The plug-in hybrid vehicles, for instance, might not need oil whatsoever one day. So, just in case we do have an energy crisis, Americans should really be using the meantime to get their heads together in order to find a solution to the oil crisis in America. Hybrid vehicles are the way to beat the energy crisis, and if countries still want to fight each other over fuel, at least America will know they attempted to stop the impending crisis by investing in hybrid cars.

So, there you have it then. The United States' mass adoption of hybrid cars would ensure that Americans use less gas. But Americans also have yet to profit from the huge amount of money being made from the manufacture of hybrid cars. The majority of popular hybrid cars come from Japan. Therefore, Americans ought to bring that money back into the country by making hybrids at home and do something about the current energy crisis at the same time.