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Top MPG is never achieved in weather extremes no matter what the technology. Your standard ICE vehicle will not achieve EPA MPG ratings in 110 Deg Temperatures with the Air Conditioning running full blast. The volt is no different. But the Volt can handle this situation owing to the ICE engine. You aren't going to have these temperature extremes the whole year. The Volt, unlike the Nissan Leaf (an all electric) can handle temperature extremes with no problems. Does it get the average 40miles/full charge? No, but it will keep you comfortable. Concerning hydrogen, I said it was in the future. Ethanol? Yes we all know that it's not a great fuel due to the fact it takes more energy to create a unit of energy from it than what it gets out. But my comments were meant to show that the electric motors do not care how the electricity is generated.

Finally your comments about having plenty of oil are completely wrong. I know people in the oil business and they are telling me that oil discoveries of significant nature are VERY few and far between. We simply don't have very much recoverable oil in the United States lower 48 if you exclude offshore. Yes, there is oil but it is not recoverable at economical levels.

"Yes, there is oil but it is not recoverable at economical levels."

Yet. We take oil now that 10 or 20 years ago was not recoverable at economic levels. I know people in the business as well, mostly from my time working in the oil business. If the industry weren't handcuffed, we'd find and produce plenty of oil. It would impact our economy and security greatly. You are parroting the Obama position, which is the destruction of the oil industry.