I haven't enjoyed driving so much..

I haven't enjoyed driving a car so much since that '65 Mustang back in '75.

In the earlier mid-70's we lived through the Gas Crisis. There was a moment, just as I was getting a driver's license, that it appeared the whole "american driving thing" was going, ending. Thirty years later, and finally maybe, things will change in a substantial way.

My lust for the electric glide really got started a few years ago during a trip to Vancouver BC. I saw there a museum exhibit of a Meyrs-Motors Sparrow - all electric, good speed and range... and in a museum. My anger really blossomed, a year or so later, when I came across the "SmartCar". A dozen of the buggers, and I would have bought one then and there, had they not been illegal in the US!. You can buy them here from Zap, but not from Daimler-Chrysler (where the standard "we can't make a profit" claim is issued like a droning mantra).

Free market? The marketplace is, as ever, controlled and defined by "the greedy men who rule the world" many of whom may not live to see the climate tip out of its 11,000 year equilibrium, and my choice of a Prius is at its heart a political act.