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Commonguymd: 25? Low 30s? You are an idiot. Lmao.

I posted a reply, but it looks my embedded Calvin and Hobbes image must have been censored. Anyhoo, I didn’t understand your point - but I think you mis-understood. You thought I was saying the temps were in the low 30s? I was actually saying my range in the winter was mostly in the low 30s-miles. We did have a mild winter - I don’t think we had more than a couple of nights in the teens, but quite a few in the 20s-degrees.

That all being said, commonguymd, I’m sorry that you choose to send your fuel money overseas instead of keeping it in America with America-sourced coal, natural gas and nuclear power. I guess it’s a free country, but please explain why you choose to support Hugo Chavez and the Saudis instead of American electricity.

Please let us know how much you paid for gasoline last year. Realize that 10% of that is going to the Saudis and 10% of that is going to Hugo Chavez. In the last 11 months, I have only bought 35 gallons of gasoline, meaning I have sent only about $12 each to those regimes. In the previous year, I sent over 10 times as much money to the Saudis and Chavez.

It IS your choice these days. If you live in Maryland (as your screen name suggests), you’ve had over a year to buy a Volt and start using Made-in-America fuel. Please explain why you continue to send your money to America’s enemies when you have the choice to do otherwise.

Niedermeyr: You say the Volt “can only go 30 miles on battery IF YOU DON’T USE THE A/C ,, or can only go 20 miles on battery IF YOU USE THE HEAT.”

Your ignorance is showing. I really wish you knew what you were talking about before disparaging a great guy like Lutz, and a great American car that uses almost exlcusively made-in-USA fuel like the Volt. I have had my Volt for almost 11 months, and 10,000+ miles. Last summer, me, my wife, my daughter and my future-son-in-law went to a lake 25 miles away in 95 degree weather, and I had the A/C on (interior set to 75 degrees), and the Volt was fully loaded with beach chairs, blankets, coolers, etc. That was the worst all-electric mileage I ever got up to that point, and I went 40.9 miles before the engine started.

In the winter, I set my Volt’s interior temp to 75 degrees and I have never seen anything as low as 20 miles on a charge. The worst has been 25 miles, but usually it’s in the low 30s during the winter.

jazusamo: Nope, I’m not the same as “truthguy”. There are a lot of people driving Volt’s because we like to keep our money here in the US, using made-in-USA fuel instead of sending our money overseas.

I don’t like any tax break, and I really wish the Volt was made by Ford. If the exact same car was made by Ford, people like Mark Modica would heralding these facts, and saying what a great car it is, “even outselling all other Ford hybrids”!

By the way, Steve Doocy of Fox News has the same take on the Volt:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/opinion-15749653/can-the-chevy-volt-help-win-the-war-on-terror-28727640.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fopinion-15749653%252Fcan-the-chevy-volt-help-win-the-war-on-terror-28727640.html

NY Times Chevy Volt Criticism Confounds Proponents

Actually, Mr. Modica must not have read the article, since he only notes that the “report by the NY Times that it would take up to 27 years for Chevy Volt buyers”. The report also says that a Volt “payback time could drop to about eight years if gas cost $5 a gallon and the driver remained exclusively on battery power.”

The 27-year figure cited is only true for someone who drives 131 miles each time the Volt is fully charged. Not very realistic. As an average American driver (30-mile round trip commute), and a Volt owner, my ‘payback’ happened in the first week I had my Volt, when I stopped sending my money to support Hugo Chavez and the Saudis.

I estimate that I gave each of those regimes $2000 since 9/11/01. In the year that I have driven my Volt, my ‘donations’ to Al Qaeda’s Madrassa’s and Hugo Chavez’s tyranny have been cut by 90%. The fact that, given my driving pattern, the extra cost of the Volt will be paid back in 10 years is just icing on the cake.

jazusamo: GE has not begun purchasing Volts in any significant numbers yet. In March, with 2289 Volt sales, only 160 of those 2289 were to fleet customers. Just sayin...

I’m conservative, and I don’t understand the reason why so many conservatives don’t want the energy-independence that cars like the Volt offer. I work for the Army (as a contractor), and I see the toll that protecting oil lanes causes.

Yes, I understand that the $7500 rebate is irksome, as was the GM bailout. But the Volt is the only car that provides the ability for me to drive almost exclusively on made-in-USA electricity almost all of the time, but still be able to take it on long trips, so I started leasing a Volt 8 months ago (Can’t afford to buy one on my salary yet). In over 7000 miles, I have only visited a gas station twice.

I totally agree with ‘drill here, drill now’, and this could lessen our imports. The fact remains that there is no physical, geological or agricultural way that the United States can produce enough domestic liquid fuel to become energy independent at our current rate of consumption.

If you want to continue to support the Saudis, Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, I suppose that is your right but why do it if you can drive an American made car on made-in-USA electricity? And this is not a rhetorical question. I really want to know why someone as a conservative wants to support these regimes.

If you want to see non-fleet interest in the volt just go to: http://gm-volt.com/ Gm-volt is NOT affiliated with GM, but was started by a Neurologist in NY who is interested in energy independence.