Paul,
 There's voodoo economics and now I'm a believer in voodoo mpg.

 Chevy says the Volt gets 230 mpg city.
 Let's see: it will go 40 miles on pure electric.
 It has a 10 gal. fuel tank.
 The overall range is more than 300 miles.
 Let's give it the benefit of the doubt here and say it will go 300 on
 its gasoline, which is 30 mpg.
 So add the 300 gas miles and the 40 electric miles and you get a total
 of 340 miles If you divide 340 by the 10 gal of gas do you get 34 mpg
 or 230?
 jd


 The real question is how many miles per bucket full of coal?
 No pollution in my back yard.

 The other thing about it is once the batteries are dead
 after traveling 40 miles you then have a 100 HP piston engine
 in a 3500 pounds car. Talk about a slug. That should kill sales
 in a milli microsecond when that becomes common knowledge.

 I can't believe how stupid the Government thinks I am.
 Maybe it it just who THEY hang out with :)

 Paul Lamar

Paul just hit the crutch of it all. Electric and hybrids still
depend on the grid and the grid, since we haven't built more
nuc plants, does depend highly on coal. In essence you are
trading one pollution producer, the car, and transferring
that pollution production to the grid. Lets see what that
means for the current grid when everybody plugs in for a
charge. I can see the smoke rolling now, the fines being
sent to Uncle Sam for pollution, and consumers paying
substantially higher electric rates to pay the fines.
Gasoline, even at higher prices, still makes more sense when
you do the math, track the pollution and see the sticker shock.

Hey, global warming means less heating oil is used to stay warm!

Wade

They won't bother fining or taxing they will take over ownership to "FIX"
the shortage. Never let a crisis go to waste. Better yet.. create the crisis
in the first place.

Warm came before carbon.

Paul Lamar

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