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Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle.

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No offense, but that is a cockamamie analysis if I've ever seen one. That per unit cost is based on the current 6,000 cars already sold, which would mean that to be true, they would have to cease selling them RIGHT now, since with each additional vehicle sold that unit cost drops. Further, that assumes that these companies put that money into a special bucket strictly for the Volt and nothing else. I've never yet seen a company (in the auto sector at least) that does that. They ALWAYS bleed off funds for other projects, especially capital equipment projects that had previously been in need of funding when it was short. FURTHER, the portions of that money that ARE used for projects such as the Volt will be used by suppliers like the battery supplier, Compact Power, for other projects. Do you think they are going to use the technology developed solely for one car? No, they will use it across whatever platforms they supply batteries to, so technically for this study, you have to include those vehicles as well. And lastly, besides the fact that McMillin is an idiot who can't understand basic accounting, I will ask again, name me ONE major new infrastructure related technology that became marketable WITHOUT gov't subsidies. Suddenly though, it's an issue, when it wasn't during the building of the rail system in the 1800's, the electrical and telephone grids, oil and natural gas production, nuclear power, the internet, materials technologies like alloys, plastics, satellite systems and communications, need I go on?