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My old 1991 VW Jetta diesel, would average 50 miles to the gallon and driving a steady 60-65 mph on the Interstate I could fill the tank in Niantic, jump on I-95 and drive all day 500 miles get up in the morning and drive another 200 and still have a 100 miles in the tank, and fill up well on the Ohio Toll Road. All from a car that cost me a little over 11,000 dollars to buy 22 years ago. The 2012 models are great cars, and the difference you pay for one of those vs a volt, will have to driving 150000 miles at least before you even spend the money a Volt costs. That 10 years of driving and then some for most. And what was a bonus for me was that every not and again I would just fill it with Jet-A while on flying contracts. I use to work down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters, and my base manager would come up to me and say you do some fly overs this week on my week off, and you can just pump some Jet A when ever you need it. The helicopter I was flying would burn 26 gallons per hour, and I would fly anywhere 5 to 8 hours a day most days. We had 6 helicopters at that base. I would live for fog banks off shore, I once sat watching tv for my whole shift. 14 days and then another 10 on fly over. Flew just four days that month got paid for 30 days. My kind of job.

Unfortunately, the article didn't mention where the power is supposed to come from.

The cost of electricity in the New York areas as of October 2011 was $0.191. At 16 kwh x $0.191 per kwh it costs $3.06 to charge the battery. That works out to $0.12 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery if you drive like Bolling. For others who get 35 miles per charge it works out to $0.08 per mile at New York rates or $0.05 per mile using the national average residential retail price of electricity of 11.53 cents per kilowatt-hour. That's like paying about $1.85 a gallon for gas.

Here�s where I got the 11.53 cents per kilowatt-hour from: Electricity Prices by State

I see in the April 2012 issue of Motor Trend on page 32 that SunPower is working with Nissan and Ford while SunLogic is working with GM to produce affordable home solar charging units that can provide enough power for 12,000 miles of driving a year in most locations. Honda is developing their own home solar charging units using a thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) technology that Honda says has real world performance close to that of the more expensive silicon technology. Amortizing the cost of a $10,000 solar charging unit over 5 years at 12,000 miles a year comes out to 17 cents per mile, but over the 25 year warranty the cost could be as low as 3 cents per mile.

With affordable home solar charging units, we could soon be at a tipping point where the total cost (purchase price + maintenance + fuel) of electric passenger vehicles will be less than similar gas vehicles.

Are you kidding? I wouldn't buy one of those pos GM cars with YOUR money...

Slightly off topic but ...

Fox News does not properly investigate their stories before airing them. It doesn't help the cause.

And every time someone gets a home mortgage, the mortgage deduction they take every year for up to 30 years is paid for with my money!

In other words, deductions are fair if YOU receive them, but not fair is someone else receives them.

Got Faux news on right now. They are bitchin about the Volt again this morning. Same old story over and over again. Oh yes....and one of the problems is the the battery fires.....lets see "fires" lets see I think there was one....on a smashed car that sat for 20+ days.
But todays fair and balances is saying fires....in the batteries. You know...plural....sounds better. And of course they bring up the $7500 rebates which do not exist....they are credits for your taxes at year end. If you were Mitt Romney you'd save 14% x's $7500= $1050. And of course under several proposed future republican rules you could buy one in your businesses name and write the whole thing off.

WTF?

You clearly don't understand the difference between tax deductions and tax credits.

So tell me, do each reduce taxes owned to the Federal Government? If so, I'm picking up the tab, now aren't I?

Look what the mortgage interest deduction has done, distorted the the home market. How many "McMansions" have been built in the past 20 years that are lived in by 2 people solely for the purpose of maximizing the mortgage tax deduction?

If you're going to argue against the Volt tax credit, I'm going to lobby to take away your mortgage tax deduction because I rent. Game on.

So tell me, do each reduce taxes owned to the Federal Government? If so, I'm picking up the tab, now aren't I?

Look what the mortgage interest deduction has done, distorted the the home market. How many "McMansions" have been built in the past 20 years that are lived in by 2 people solely for the purpose of maximizing the mortgage tax deduction?

If you're going to argue against the Volt tax credit, I'm going to lobby to take away your mortgage tax deduction because I rent. Game on.

A tax credit doesn't do away with the tax owed. You still have to pay that tax, it's now you can pay it in pieces over an extended time.

I got the 7500 credit for my house when I bought it. I now pay that back 500 bucks a year.

My tax credit is paid for by ME not by you.