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Originally Posted by PontiacBixler
No one has thought about the consequences yet of what CJ THUNDER just said....
If people think that they are going to be able to go somewhere and just plug in without paying anything for it, they are going to be sorely mistaken.
You really think your employer is going to soak up the cost of recharging your car for you to come to work and go home??? You really think malls and stores are going to make outlets available for people to recharge their cars on the mall's dime?
Some places do already offer outlets but only for engine block heaters which don't take as much juice as these cars will need.
Don't be surprised if they make a toll based parking area that you have to pay a pretty penny to recharge a battery at the simplest of places.
People seem to forget that they have to pay for electricity sometimes when they make purchases. All these people also went out and bought widescreen HDTVs that actually use more juice than their old tube-styled TV's and now wonder why their bill each month went up by $10-$30 in some cases.
Just wait for the backlash when people's monthly bills go up over $200/month more because they now plug in their cars at night or their raises at their jobs are smaller than previous years because of added cost from outlets out in the parking lot.
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I don't think anyone who would have interest in buying a Volt expects that the 'juice' will be free. The truth is that the price of oil will continue to be unstable. As the supply gets tighter, the price wil gyrate and the traders will push the price ever higher. Gasoline is simply going to get more expensive.
Anyone who has taken a college level course in Economics, knows the law of substitution. The more unstable the price of fuel, the more folks will gravitate to alternatives. The Volt is a viable alternative, and for anyone to speculate what it will cost, including the warranty cost for the battery pack is simply foolish. No one knows what gas will cost in 2010, and no one knows if the government will subsidize the cost of Hybrids and Electric Cars as it is in the Nation's security interest to generate the energy for transportation in the US as opposed to buying it from nations bent on our destruction. We spend billions to defend these tin pot governments in Arabia, so why not take some of that money we waste there and put it to use helping ourselves. Those dollars spent helping folks off their gasoline dependence multiplies itself when spent in the US to buy American made products. We flush money down an big fat oil well protecting our oil interests in foreign countries. Those dollars go there and generally don't return to re-invest here.
I will buy one even if it costs $50K, because I prefer my energy coming from the power plant in New Jersey, not some terrorist supporting, repressive regime in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter. The quicker we make the conversion, the better off we will all be.