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Transport gets you where you need to go.
But it can also be really darn fun.

Currently I'm using:
My feet.
A Trek 8500 bike outfitted with slick tires, a great urban exploration bike
A 2000 Honda Insight to get me around town at 65mpg
The Denver Bus / Light Rail system, rapid transit rapidly expanding

Hybrid tips from six years driving the Honda Insight.
* Check tire inflation levels front / rear.

* Honda hybrids have the electric and gas motor tied together, so the gas is always on. Consider the electric motor a "turbo" assist to the gas engine to get you up to speed for short periods.

* Keep the A/C and Radio at a lower level to conserve power.

* Switch the console display to current MPG listing (not lifetime) to get instantaneous feedback on what you're doing.

* Learn to look well ahead in traffic. Not "The car ahead of me" but 5-10 cars ahead. Avoid excessive speed changes up / down and try to just maintain a constant speed.

If you know that the light ahead will be red by the time you get there, take your foot off the gas and let it glide with the clutch engaged so that it can regeneratively brake power via the electric motor into the battery, here you are recapturing energy to use when the light changes.  Press the brake pedal lightly for a long time to use the regen, down to about 30mph, then harder to finish off with the friction brakes.  

Be aware that non-hybrids don't brake like this and will ride your ass if you do it, so it's better to stay out of bunches of traditional vehicles, but I think this is true for everybody because those idiot drivers that bunch up feel to me like prime rear-enders.

From a stop I like to accelerate with electric assist up to driving speed and then back off and let the gas engine maintain that.