I know everyone is bitching about the Arizona Law – I’m to not worried about the Supreme court will overturn the court 5-4 so while this is a serious matter everyone else is covering it. So I’m going to talk about the glorious new Chevy Volt.
Did you see this piece of crap? The car that Dopey was pushing and talking about like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. The NEW all electric Chevy Volt – yeehah and it retails for only $41,000.00 or a little over a $1000.00 a miles drive distances.
Chevy Volt: Are Electric Cars Too Expensive?
When General Motors Corp. said its new Chevrolet Volt electric car would cost $41,000 and up, many consumers and industry insiders winced. Some of them consider anything over $40,000 serious money for a car, and they may not think the Volt is worth the premium over other economy models.
But here is the deal and I’ll admit I thieved part of this idea from a comment on Hot Air – a good comment they just had some MPG data slightly off.
This Chevy Volt is $41,000.00 in addition to gas guzzling truck of which I’m going to get another one (perhaps a big 7.3 Diesel with a lift bucket on it – I’m not kidding) and we have a little Honda Civic Hybrid for road trips that’s gets on average 40+ MPG (yes Looney Liberals even conservative can drive Hybrids – we just don’t get smug about it.) So the Hybrid was bought when gas was cheap between Katrina and the spike for (I think) for around $16,000.00 – OK those are the numbers.
Got it… $16K car verses $41K car
Chevy Volt $41,000.00
Honda Civic Hybrid – $16,000.00
The difference – $25,000.00 and as of today gas was $2.53/gal here – so now let’s divide $25K by $2.53 that come to 9881.42 gallons of gas – so calculate that the Honda Civic Hybrid that gets 40+ MPG so on nearly 10,000 gallons of gas you could drive 395,256.91 miles (or all the way to the moon and 2/3 of the way back). Now take those 395,256.91 miles and divide that by the 20,000 a year we put on the car and it would only take 19.76 year to break even if you bought a Volt – well were the hell do I sign up to buy one.
BUT… BUT I didn’t even factor in the amount of money you have to spend to charge the car and exactly where would you charge the car while at work and just who is going to let you plug your car in to charge every day with out paying them and the very fact that electricity come from where? Fossil fuel, that’s where and did I mention that this snazzy new $41,000.00 Chevy Volt has a range of up to 40 miles? 40 MILES!! And if you read the fine print of the Volt it says …
Volt is an electric car that uses gas to create its own electricity. Plug it in, let it charge overnight, and it’s ready to run on a pure electric charge for up to 40 miles(3) — gas and emissions free. After that, Volt keeps going, even if you can’t plug it in. Volt uses a range-extending gas generator that produces enough energy to power it for hundreds of miles on a single tank of gas.
Whoa it still uses gas in addition to it’s fossil fuels powered electricity? What the hell – how GREEN is that? And exactly what’s that little disclaimer (3) after the “40 miles” … hmmm?
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Assumes fully charged battery. Actual range depends on driving habits, weather conditions, terrain and the operation of electrical features in the vehicle. Vehicle features and performance capabilities subject to change without notice.
So what they are saying is provide you have a perfectly flat and straight road on a sunny day and you have a full charge you can get 40 miles out of it, otherwise forget it.
So after looking at the specs, the numbers, the facts and the cost I’d say the Chevy Volt would be better called the Chevy Joke. Get’s yours today.
The folks that bbuy the Volt are the same smug selfish elitist that buy the IPad


Here is a thought, on October 1, 1977 the Department of Energy went active it was on August 4, 1977 that Jimmy Carter signed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Organization Act (Public Law 95-91) to solve all of our energy whoas due to the energy crisis of the the 70′s … 1977 that was nearly 32 ago. 32 year and we aren’t one step closer to being energy independent than we were in 1977. Yet we spend over $25,000,000,000.00 a year on the DOE that employs 16,000 Federal employees and over 100,000 contracted employees and still we are not one inch closer to independence.