New York Times: Hybrid cars may be as popular as ever, but they may not have much impact on the nation’s – or the world’s – oil consumption over the next two decades, according to J. Marshall Adkins and Pavel Molchanov, analysts for the financial services firm Raymond James. Roughly 290,000 hybrids were sold last year in the United States, about the same as in 2008, and down from a high of 347,000 in 2007. Last year, hybrid cars — which have both conventional and a battery operated-engines — had a …