To say nothing of destroying the business case for doing anything else in a country so monumentally stupid as to assess itself such an economy-destroying tax at all, let alone in the middle of a recession.

Kinds of destroys the business case for plug in electrics doesn’t it?

Things that are not yet complete can be “ahead of schedule and under budget.” Of course, at any time before project completion, that can change.

And it’s possible to change the project so as to pretend one is ahead of schedule and/or under budget but it’s not the same project, so the comparison is invalide.

And the original project plan could have been a series of deliberate overestimations and SWAGs, so, who knows?

OK, I admit that I like the look better than a Prius. And we’ve pounded them for years for not “sweating the details”, so give them some credit for trying to do that.

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1) No, thin air doesn’t look better than a Prius. Let’s compare production Volt to production Prius please.

2) How can one claim something is “ahead of schedule and under budget?” I mean, the product has to roll down the production line before you can claim that, right?

In spite of their new Government Overlords I hope they succeed in making a viable car. I’m sure there are some bright, hard-working, well-meaning people trying to make this thing fly.

But really, this whole thing makes a lottery ticket look like a sure bet from where I sit…