What's stupid is building
What's stupid is building expensive electric cars before we develop green energy sources. It's one thing to conduct R & D, and another to introduce the mass production of vehicles that have no hope of providing the convenience, life span and low cost of gasoline internal combustion engine. The fact is that the electric side of the hybrid car cannot travel far after a full night of charging, and after discharging on any trip of over 40 miles will still use fossil fuel produced gasoline to go much further. Fact: The Volt doesn't meet the needs of most citizens today and the only people who can afford to own one, the very well off, are being subsidized to the tune of thousands of dollars from the taxpayers for the privilege. This is morally wrong as well as addle headed. It is not a good beginning for green energy, but a premature and wasteful dead end.