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Originally Posted by stephen wilson
OK, let's see.....$60-100k...vs. $6/Gallon for gas, you're talking a pretty long payoff period for the short distance commuter. The people buying these can afford high gas prices! Let's face it, most will buy them for "green" bragging rights, just like celebrities do now with the Prius. I'll admit, it is nice to at least make an electric car that is fun, and doesn't look like a clown car.
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Everything in techology is expensive at first. My first IBM laptop cost $4,000. That same computing capability can now be purchased at 1/10 the cost at Wal-Mart. Those $4,000 Windows computers paved the way for $500 iPads and iPhones in a span of less than 15 years.
Also, the price of finite forms of energy that are traded on the
expectation of future demmand rather than
current demmand being met or even exceeded, and then further speculated by institutional investors who have an interest in parking vast sums on long side only energy bets (which will bring you $6 gas sooner than many realize) will not deliver us falling prices like in the case of laptops. Quiet the opposite: the more China and the rest of the BRICS grow, the higher the oil specualtion will go. These players are all more than willing to bid well past the prices that strict supply and demmand would call for just to secure their share of oil and to price out the competing bidders. The average U.S. household can't survive in those pricey waters. Nat Gas>fuel cell>hybrid electric cars, seem like one of the few alternatives to spare them of the whims of rampant future oil speculation.
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