#1 - We need infrastructure improvements first.

No we don't!  Now is the time for everyone to buy an electric car.  You would recharge them overnight when demand is low.  Our current power grid can adequately maintain increased demand as long as it is off-peak.  We also need people to get used to the idea of having a car with less range than a gasoline car, but adequate range for daily driving. 

Some say we need to wait for wind/solar power, but that is a "pie-in-the-sky" scenario which will take years (or decades) to accomplish.  The time is now!

Also, we are the "Saudi Arabia" of coal.  The time to start using it is now.  Unless you are willing to live like the Amish, then you need to become realistic about energy; solar or wind just won't keep things going right now.  Solar power may someday provide all our needs, but wind will never do that.

#2 - The Chevy Volt will be an electric car:

The Volt will be a hybrid with a gasoline engine.  However, unlike the current crop of "parallell hybrids" it will be the first "series hybrid."  All of the power delivered to the wheels will come from an electric motor, but it will also have a gasoline engine.

The Tesla is an all-electric vehicle.  No gasoline engine involved. 

I say we bail-out Tesla and let GM manage on their own.

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