Yep, it'* like they're playing Sim City:

- Put a windmill here {boink}
- Put a charger here {thunk}
- Run some power lines from the windmill to the charger {bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloopbloopbloop}
- Turn disasters off {click click click}
- Type F U N D to get $10,000.00 free money added to the city budget

Voila'! Green power electric cars!

But on a serious note: I think they have their place. They reclaim some of their kinetic energy. They don't have 5+ different kinds of fairly toxic fluids competing for which one gets to leak first through seals that are constantly having their endurance tested. They don't have stress from warm-up and cool-down cycles and underhood heat soakings in summer parking lots. Etc. Etc. For someone who wants a car to be an appliance and doesn't have far to go every day, an electric car would be great. Like a golf cart'* mission, just in car form and at car speeds. Plug it in every once in a while and call it good. For most of us, we need something affordable that can get us wherever for a reasonable price. I see hybrids as the best of both worlds, and hope they gain market share as pricing allows.

Regardless, forcing it down our throats without anything remotely resembling a somewhat feasible plan is mostly going to serve to alienate the majority against them at best.