Nope. You pay the exact same tax everyone else pays for purchasing an expensive vehicle.

That's the problem with hybrids. Nakaka-save ng gas ang owner... but who pays for their tax breaks and incentives?

Owners of other vehicles... that's who. Going green should be its own reward... but if others have to shoulder your savings, then there's something fundamentally flawed with the "green" model being espoused. Why should taxpayers shoulder up to $7000 for other people's hybrids? That 3.5 - 7k incentive could instead be used to research alternative fuels, or could go to building solar, hydroelectric or whatever power stations, which would have a bigger long-term impact than a single hybrid.

Hybrids make more financial and environmental sense as applied to public utility fleets... where the number of kilometers covered and number of passengers served means that a hybrid will pay for itself within less than a year... even without a tax break.

Why am I focused so much on money? Well... money doesn't grow on trees. To generate the money it costs to build a hybrid... crops are grown and topsoil is lost. Animals are farmed and animal populations are depleted, or even more crops are grown to feed those animals. Oil is pumped and refined. People build houses, make goods, sell goods. To make money requires economic activity... which, at its very core, is fueled by natural resources.

Instead of generating more economic activity and thus, natural resource usage, which is required to cover the shortfall in government revenue created by "green" tax breaks and which is accelerated by the "carbon offset" economy... why not use all that energy to directly build sustainable power in the first place? Put a punitive tax on all fossil fuel used and use that tax to fund construction of renewable energy resources. Don't give tax breaks for hybrids or electrics... as it takes non-renewable energy to make them, in the first place!

Encouraging people to buy more expensive items because it's the "green" thing to do misses the point. Why not just encourage them to spend less. Spend less on automobiles... spend less on gasoline, by commuting, walking or cycling. Spend less on travel altogether by moving closer to your place of work, or finding work closer to home... or by working via the internet.

By promoting hybrids, we just perpetuate the same wasteful lifestyle... we're just putting a better face on it, is all.