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[OakLeaf]

It has a lot to do with the kind of driving one does I'm sure. I know people who get much better mileage in their ... oh here's that word again. Priuses? Prii? Prioi? (I prefer the latter even though it ought to go with a singular Prios, not Prius )

Up north it's a rural commute. Accelerate to highway speed, go two miles, come to a redlight and stop; repeat x 3. Definite gas mileage killer. Down south, use the car once or twice a week so the battery doesn't stay topped up.

Unfortunately I have a suspicion that the Prius does best in the kind of daily commute where SOMEONE SHOULDN'T BE DRIVING A DANGED CAR AT ALL because it's stop and go urban traffic and you should just take the bus, or the train. Or ride your bike.

... Did I say don't get me started?

PS are you going by the auto-calculation of the gas mileage, or figuring it yourself? It turns out that my gas mileage doesn't drop near as much in cold weather as the car thinks it does. The fuel tank is a rubber bladder, to reduce evaporative emissions, but it gets much stiffer in the cold, and it throws off the auto-calculations.