Plug-in is fine for me. I learned how to plug-in the gas nozzle at the age of 15 when I got my first drivers license. Yeah, way back then, 1945, one could get a license @ 15. However, Plug-in electric would be (1) cleaner, (2) won't smell of gas and (3) will never burp gas all over you.

Now, now, johnny. In a couple of years, when you turn 18 and some 6 year old makes a snide remark about you being so old, you might remember your tasteless "grannie" remark.

Heck, just move the dealership slightly north to Nashua, NH. That's where I always bought my cars when I lived in Billerica, MA. Better price, lower tax, etc.

And just where did you find that the Tesla battery costs $40,000?

Yes, I think you are missing the point that car buyers should not have to jump through hoops (change their holdings). It's tough enough for the average car buyer, dealing with sleazy salespeople, and being rushed, pushed and bullied into purchasing the salespersons choice of car.

I've raced a bar stool also, John. However, I didn't win.

Starting this coming Monday, I start a new job and will be averaging, my boss says, 225 miles per day. That means a plug-in car is well out of the question. The company is supplying me with a new company car, a 2.0 diesel Jaguar XF sedan, shipped here from France. So in a few weeks I will feel educated enough in the diesel vehicles economy to give you all a blow by blow account.

Only from an attorney, and a "former" one at that!

Where did you all see the plug, the cord, the charger, the......well all that other stuff? All I saw was the chick in the black dress. (VVBG)

Yeah, price is pretty steep, but it is the first hybred bike with looks that both my significant other and I like. Maybe when they sell them in the millions, the price might come down.