Every day on the J-Nik we see cars costing $40k and much more - ones that go 182 miles an hour, ones that have 700+ horsepower, ones that have paint jobs that cost more than the Volt for chrissakes. But despite the fact that they are completely outrageous, impractical, wasteful, vain cars they get not a single negative comment because they are fast and cool. That's fine with me, but if folks have different priorities, like perhaps cutting carbon emissions, that's fine with me too.

I for one am happy to see an American car company coming out with a market-leading car that has the potential to take energy saving technology forward. It may be a bit on the pricey side, and the premium over any other car from GM probably won't be made up in gas savings, but it's an innovative, advanced technology car that is worthy of some attention.

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Let us define a dimension, which we shall call "ξ", that represents the combined state of smug cluelessness which characterizes hybrid drivers, Wiccans, and all those who passionately believe in obscure magics that they cannot explain.

It was imperative, from a marketing standpoint, to have this new, wonderful, magical, vehicle of our collective salvation, introduced by someone who perfectly embodied this smug cluelessness. In a word, they needed someone with a world-class "ξ" coefficient.

Because with the one, AND the other, THEN, brothers and sisters, you've got "ξ" SQUARED. And that is the super, most bestest concentration of "ξ" POSSIBLE with our current technology.

I am in AWE of the genius of it...

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