I’m so excited.  The new Fiat 500e electric cars begin to hit Fiat showrooms this week across the country.   But don’t run out to buy one just yet, or you will run afoul of Fiat Chrysler Automotive CEO Serrghio Marchionne, who back in May begged Americans not to buy the 500e.   “I hope you don’t buy the 500e because every time I sell one it costs me $14,000.  I will sell the minimum of what I need to sell and not one more.”    Responding to overzealous fleet fuel efficiency mandates put in place in 2011 by the Obama EPA, automakers increasingly must produce cars that Americans don’t want to buy.

Let’s get this straight.  The EPA wants zero emission vehicles that no one wants, and they are willing to give the consumer a tax credit to do so.  Automakers produce the desired, unwanted product, then beg consumers not to buy them.  And the emissions produced by fossil-fuel powered electric  generation plants needed to provide the juice necessary to incessantly plug in and recharge the electric cars is greater than the emissions from a like-number of gasoline powered vehicles .   And the taxpayers get hit by offering tax credits to the dopes who buy the cars.    Aren’t Teslas cool though ?           WHAT THE HECK !