Mmm, delicious!  I suddenly want one too...even though I usually don't care about cars, unless I'm being driven around for shits and giggles.  Yay to the anti-terrorist and environmentally friendly future of sexy sportscars!
 

oh my..... i might have to have one too.... we need a plan. 
 

Wow, it's too bad that one cent per mile still goes to your listed enemies.  If the environmental wacko's would let us build nuclear power plants MAYBE we could start coming off of foreign oil, but for the moment it's either domestic coal, natural gas, or foreign and domestic oil for our electricity needs.  But that's cool anyway.
 

Color me unimpressed. Yeah, why put down a mortgage deposit on a new house, when you can own a rolling box, instead?

Some math for you. Let's suppose I take that hundred grand, and instead buy a new, gas-powered automobile for $12000. Over the past two years, I've generally spent $25-$30 a week at the pump -- but for the sake of argument, let's assume the absolute worst occurs tomorrow -- that Al Qaeda destroys the Saudis' refineries, half of Iraq becomes West Iran, Chavez embargoes us for not making Noam Chomsky head the US Department of Education, etc. -- and the price of petroleum SEXTUPLES to $15 a gallon -- meaning I end up plopping a hundred fifty dollars a week for gas instead.

Under these apocalyptic conditions, for that amount of money, I could drive that sucker for an entire DECADE on ludicrously overpriced petroleum, and still have ten grand left over.

"Oh, but at least you're not raping Gaia/giving money to terrorists!" And pray tell, just where does the energy COME from to charge that car's battery, eh? From the GRID, of course. Power plants. Fossil fuels. Oil, by and large (as cheap, plentiful and economical nuclear power is still considered eeeeevil by short-sighted fools).

So all you've essentially done is needlessly inconvenience and impoverish yourself, while adding an extra step in the oil-to-automobile distribution model -- that of a hefty chemical battery that's probably not all that overly great for the environment either (and will cost you even MORE money to replace, when it eventually degrades in a couple years)!

Ho hum...
 

its always such sour milk/bitter pill with the anti green crowd.

the electric car is only part of a very complex solution that we need to work toward which isnt SO anti technology and big business corperate profit if you really look at it.

the other shoe that needs to drop is major investment in wind and solar power and well.  a recent global warming documentary i watched claimed that 100 mile by 100 mile grid of solar panels could power the entire continental united states.  this could fit every so nicely in the southwest in the desert and create countless jobs to build and maintain.

and if we can manage it safely and have the entire solution worked out... nuclear power to a degree.

and i havent done the math on the $100K versus savings in gas yet... but it isnt just about overall savings... this is a, to quote peter griffin of family guy a "pretty freakin sweet" ride.  throw in the fact that it works toward a solution that i'm behind and i want to support it and raise awareness.

it was less than half a century between the wright bros first flight and our first steps on the moon... if we wanted to put our finest minds on this solution we could get it done.  and im sure the conservative lobbyists/blood sucking, baby eating vampires could find a way to make money off of it.

 

Re wind, solar and other dubious greentard 'energy sources' -- guess desert fauna and chopped-up birds don't count in the greater scheme of things, huh? -- unfortunately, you (and that tedious crusading dork Al Gore) don't seem to know much about how modern power generation networks operate -- specifically the concept of 'dynamic load' and how it relates to consumer demand.

There's a link with more techy information here if you really want to 'raise your awareness' about such things. But in a nutshell: in order to keep, say your lights, or your desktop computer 'on' without flickering or browning out, there needs to be a constant, STEADY source of power generation available to draw upon, via spinning turbines -- as there's no battery on earth big enough to store what gets produced at any given plant. And since the output of solar panels, windmills and hamster treadmills are regularly at the mercy of that whore Mother Nature, they just don't cut the mustard.

Anyway, I just think it's amusing how the crowd who sneers most about American 'consumerism' and 'conspicuous consumption' has, apparently, no problem running out and blowing obscene wads of cash on outrageously overpriced, technologically inferior and just plain WASTEFUL non-solutions to non-problems, just to show their neighbors how 'socially conscious' they are.

Meanwhile, those of us 'conservative/blood sucking' types who live in the real world still barbarically think rather highly of this notion of 'saving money' -- both for the individual and society as a whole. Ain't it just awful?
 

i dont pretend to have all of the answers.  but neither should you.  opinions are like a-holes right?  and if you search the internet enough you can find some so-called "expert" or "experts" that will write a paper or document claiming anything is fact.

the fact is like i said, it took us under fifty years from the wright bros first flight to landing on the moon... we could use the same know how to perfect solar and wind power and maybe even use other sources that have yet to be discovered.