I'm sure all the skeptics are saying "your electric bills going to be sky high, blah blah blah", while my electric bill will be higher it won't be sky high. I dug out my Kill-a-watt meter the day after we got the volt. I've been monitoring our usage for the past week, as of tonight we've used right at 50 kwh charging the volt, so lets do some math, if the current price with various taxes and other fees is about 12 cents per kilowatt hour, I think we've used a whopping $6 this week....oh no Mr Skeptic, $6 is going to break the bank, run for the hills, crush all the electrics! We spent that in 1 day getting to work and back with our gas car.
So we saved some cash, but beyond all the cost savings think about all those gallons of gas that we didn't burn, the gallons we didn't have to pump into the tank, the gallons of gas a big oil truck didn't have to deliver while burning it's own fuel, the gallons of gas that had to be refined at some oil refinery, the gallons of gas that had to be transported most likely all the way from some foreign country that we had to export US dollars to to get.....instead we used US american made electricity in an american made Chevy Volt.
Guess what... we're still happy with our decision.
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