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To: Joe NYC who wrote (353233)	10/2/2007 1:53:23 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573911

re: The problem, in the past, has been that even if you cost of acquiring electric car was not an issue, powering it by plugging it into the outlet was more expensive than going to the gas station. Not true Joe, I think it's about 1/3 in equivalent gasoline $'s.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (353233)	10/2/2007 4:45:24 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573911

Hi Jozef, not exactly true. The Tesla's estimated cost per mile is 1 cent. The Volt's was a little more expensive, but not much more. So from a consumer perspective, if GM does what it says it will do and brings the Volt to markets for under $30K, then the problem is solved. However, you are absolutely correct to point out that this doesn't solve the environmental problem, because we still get electricity from coal. So there are other issues in the supply chain that need to be resolved. Things are looking up for nuclear, though. There have been 30+ applications for new nuclear facilities in the past few years, a more than ten-fold increase from the decades past. But what I hate about conversations like this is that closed-minded people have used arguments just like yours to avoid doing anything. I'm an operations guy and I'll tell you that what you do to solve an operations problem is that you pick out the bottlenecks where you can make a big impact quickly and where the easiest traction is to be had. Automobiles represent a much lower hanging fruit than nuclear power plants. So I say let's keep going for it.