Eco vehicles

Why is it that so many of these things end up costing more than a sports luxury car?




So I could have a weird looking encapsulated motorcycle that gets a(sarcastically spoken) whooping 60 mpg or I could go by a really nice Honda Civic and have $55,000 leftover for gas. I am sure we would all go with the Ecomobile so that we could save the environment. Okay, maybe not.