[Jeff Higgins]

There are a couple of points all of you are missing in your (entirely predictable) defenses of this technology.

First, is that no one would buy them if they had to pay the "real" purchase price, and had to pay to "refuel" them at the "free" charging stations. These are, in fact, $300,000 cars. No one is that dedicated to this cause. I guess it's easy to be all pompous and "green", as long as it's on other's "green".

Second, there is no free lunch. All power comes from somewhere. There is much discussion up here in the PNW, the land of extremely cheap hydro-electric power, about "what if?" What if every Seattle liberal started driving electric cars? These are the same folks who celebrated removing one of the dams from our Columbia river system a few years ago. How would they feel about now having to build more? What "success" looks like in this area, as far as the push to electric vehicles goes, is a far more damaging impact on our environment that current gas vehicle technology represents.

I guess we have come to expect this from our liberal friends, however. They never have shown a great deal of vision or understanding with regards to complex issues. Theirs is a more child-like, innocent, less intellectual approach. If it makes you feel good and all of the other children laud you for it, it must be good. Especially if your parents are paying for it.