HOLY KILOWATTS! A "SHOCKING" MSRP FOR CHEVY'S VOLT (AND A LEASE WAR WITH NISSAN)
By Cammie



Back in the early days of of the automobile, electric cars were the most popular "girl's cars" around.

But they "shorted out" in the marketplace because they didn't have enough "juice" to compete with cheaper, more practical petrol burners.

Fast forward eighty years. Now we've got another push for battery-powered motoring. Nissan and "Government Motors" are set to fight it out in the initial salvo.

And not much has changed. Electrics are still too expensive. For example, yesterday, Chevrolet announced that the M.S.R.P. of the gas/electric Volt will be a high-Amp $41,000!

That's a lot of coin for a few killowatts. But "Government Motors" is banking on serious tax credits and environmentalist guilt trips to jump start sales of this lead . . . er . . . lithium-ion sled.

Nissan's all-electric Leaf(blower) will sell for about eight grand less. But the Obamaians in the Ren Cen have pledged to match Nissan's lease price of $349-per-month.

Can't you just feel the electricity? Yawn. Zzzzz.

For that kind of money, I'd rather have a 400+ horsepower (298+ KW) V8!