On 1/2/07 9:53 AM, welovetoys2001 wrote:

> so, those of you out there in the cold weather, have you noticed a
> considerable drop in MPG since winter hit?

Yes indeed. And it's not just your Mercury Mariner hybrid -- every car on
the road experiences the cold weather drop, but it's more noticeable on
hybrids since there's dash feedback and we hybrid owners tend to chart our
MPGs more closely and so notice fluctuations more quickly (and since our
hybrid vehicles don't "auto-stop" as often in the cold weather, we idle more
and use more gas than "normal").

peace,
Linda