Miles per gallon - give me a break

Any sensible consumer has been figuring 'Pennies per Mile' for 2 years now.

Let's see,
'Volt' good for 100,000 miles (Maybe) = $40,000 in 2010 dollars.

Electricity for charging your $17,000 batteries, (which will have to be replaced at approximately 50,000 miles)

Estimates at 2009 prices say $0.01 per mile for electric alone. (Will multiply under 'Cap & Tax').

Depreciation on any hi-tech wonderment like the Volt can only be calculated in replacement cost.

Inflate $40,000 for the period that you take to drive 100,000 miles.

Add the environmental protests to mining the compounds necessary to manufacture the batteries; (See Michigan and other states protests against sulfide mining).

Add the costs of disposing and/or recycling the batteries.

Add the cost of cowtowing to OPEC instead of telling them to 'Sit On It'.

I can't calculate the cost of this LIE.

But I don't really care. Your Grandchildren and Great grandchildren will bear the ultimate cost of these LIES and I'll be long gone.