Yes, his actions call out “do as I say and not as I do and don’t follow my example.”

Are you suggesting that the government should decide that, even though most people (80%) drive less than 40 miles a day, EV must have 120 mile range? So those of us that only drive 20 miles a day will have to haul around an extra 100 miles worth of battery, and pay for it up front? How is that efficient? Or economical?

“What has our government done to help Nissan and Toyota to produce the second generation EV batteries. Squat. Tick Tock.”

The real question is, how much has the Japanese government spent helping those same auto makers saturate our market with subsidies and exclusionary policies. I’d like to see any EV credits apply only to domestic vehicles, the way it is in Japan.

I have driven my Volt 5600 miles since June. The dealer filled the tank, and charged the car, and in that time I have burned less than 1 gallon of the gas that was in it when I drove it home. Since I charge at night with a TOU plan at about 8 cents a KWH, (times about 13KWH) it costs about a $1.04 to fill it, and I get around 40 miles for that buck. I’ve gone about 40 miles on that gallon too.

That’s less than 3 cents a mile ($0.026), or comparable to buying gas at $1.37 for a 53 MPG car. Around here that gallon will set you back at least $4.00. ($4.19 at Costco today.)

I do expect to have to put a few gallons in sometime in June, since the car is programmed to use up the gas before it gets stale…

Oh, and before you trot out the “Powered by Coal” canard, the electricity in my state is only 1% coal. See here:
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/states/
(I use the 3% solar source myself.)

For fun compare Idaho to Wyoming, the two cheapest places in the US for electricity.

As to not producing anything here anymore, The Volt is being exported to Canada, the EU, and soon to Australia.

MrEnergyCzar

Bio-fuel can fuel airplanes and long distance hybrids. The issue is we only have so much ground to grow fuel on, and so ocean/bay farms seem viable sources. And of course the bulk of the travel needs to be electric, but all we need to a range higher than a usual day, say 100 miles. I we need to go further, the bio-fuel ICE would kick in.

In the military they teach troops not to bunch up and become a target rich environment. Note the tall building, subways, airplanes, buses and trains have all been the target of insane killers.

Obama is working as hard as he can to get America away from fossil fuel and foreign oil, and I think that is the right direction to go.

Newt is a carbon copy of Bush, Jr. and Sr. and just as stupid. He is still blaming Clinton for his failed marriages because Clinton may have had sex with that woman. If either Newt-wit or Mitt-wit or any other republican gets into office, you can kiss hybrid, electric, and clean renewable energy good-bye.