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.

Reading

Have we elected a crew of illiterate dysfunctional people to our Legislature, or are they just arrogant elitists.

How can they possibly pass thousand plus page bills without having read what is in the bills.

Rhetorical question, how stupid do they think we are? Well, we elected them didn't we?

Maybe we should go to a part time legislature. They seem to have too much time on their hands. They get distracted from their Constitutional duties to spend resources and time and effort on irrelevant issues and silly subjects.

Both houses of Congress should be required to read aloud the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution every morning right after The Pledge of Allegiance.

Maybe they should hang their Oath of Office in 12 inch font on the walls of both houses where they and C-Span can see it all day.