I am an avid advocate for electric cars and green technology in particular. I'm on the wait list for the Volt, have stock in several solar companies, and once Nanosolar comes out with a home package, my house is getting 8-10kW of solar power installed, so I can charge my volt and run my AC during the day for free.
BUT - in order to do all these things, they have to be COST-EFFECTIVE. I could put solar on my roof today for about $5 a watt, but then it would take 20 years to pay for itself. I could retrofit a prius to be a plug in hybrid, but it would take 10 years, even at $4 a gallon, to recoup the cost of doing so. I'm a practical greenie. Which is why I get so annoyed when I hear people talk about how GM "killed" the electric car. More over the fold.
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