Thy Volt

I have not yet heard GMs announcement of their "go-live" date for their Chevy Volt.

I have not yet heard GMs MSRP for this car.

I have not yet heard the dollar amount of our government's mandatory subsidy for this car.

I'm waiting.


I'm interested in following our collective fantasy in converting our vast fossil-fuel fired vehicular fleet into batterized plug-ins. The first timid step into these NiCad waters will be breached sometime next year with the vaunted release of Thy Volt. At the same time I'm having to plan my schedule around transit cuts set to take effect September 1st, Amory Lovins at the hallowed Boulder based RMI is conjuring ways to power our auto-dependent consumers on electrified vehicles, presumably wind and solar powered.

This is total, complete, unadulterated bullshit.

Not sixty miles to the north of this revered institute I stood in awe at the unmitigated sprawlish growth of Greeley, CO, and I asked my dad on our way to one of the last grain mills in the city, "Can you see all this being powered by batteries?" There were eighty seven cars parked outside the Target, miles from everywhere; sixteen stoplights to get you across highway 34 to the other edge of town; not one single new resident works in the city, the city's wealth is predicated on wealth produced elsewhere. Really -- while Lovins fucks around Boulder in a batterized car, two hundred and seventy million other Americans drive gas/diesel vehicles atop oil-derived asphalt eating foods transported 1,200 miles away. You really think all this is going to become batterized? You really think all that battery power will come from wind? From the sun?

A trickle of celebrities, wealthy wives, and Coronado call-boys will be driving our nation's first Volts. They will all be white. They will thrust their superior environmentalism in your face every time you're at a stoplight...while you're consuming planet-killing oil idling at the stoplight, they believe even their own exhalations are carbon neutral. Thy Volt is superior to your wretched ride.