If they understood math and how to calculate total dollars per mile of ownership, they wouldn't be Volt owners.
Exactly...Then there’s the unknown factors involving the new technology, it is not proven for durability and could also be completely obsolete within a few years.
I believe Modica is correct about the possibility of Obama factoring into this obsession of GM and the Volt. Obama has gotten on the Volt bandwagon, he basically appointed Akerson CEO and Obama doesn’t like to be wrong - ever.
With the election coming up Obama may have more say in GM policy than anyone thinks.
Inability or at least SEEMING inability to calculate cost is not new. I saw instances of people forty or fifty years ago buying a new “economy” car and claiming to save enough on fuel to make the monthly payment. This would only have been mathematically possible had they been driving on the expressway twelve hours a day seven days a week and were switching from a two mile per gallon car to a thirty mile per gallon car. Okay, that may be a slight exaggeration but the point is that in those days they would have had to be driving so much that the car of that period would have been in need of a bumper to bumper rebuild before it was even half paid for. When people claim to do what is MATHEMATICALLY impossible there is no question of right or wrong, they MUST be wrong by the laws of arithmetic, like those who claim their fuel cost is one hundred and fifty percent lower with the new car.
I am NOT surprised to see some Volt owners who actually think they are saving money. The human capacity for willful ignorance is unlimited.