The first thing that I though of was how EA effectively ruined the fantastic Sega NFL2k franchise by licensing the exclusive rights to player and team names from the NFL. Does this ruling effectively invalidate these exclusivity arrangements?

GM has had their best and brightest working on this car for some time now and since this is a sort of "halo" car for them I'm sure that they are doing their best to mitigate any potential problems. They also have more experience than any automaker with plug-ins, and they have decided to back it with a 10 year/150,000 mile warranty. What more could you ask for? Before everyone gets down on GM just remember that they produce some of the finest cars on the planet (Yea, I said it! ;-) ). Their C6.R race cars have dominated GT1 racing for the past 5 years at least, enough to drive the likes of Ferrari and Porsche out of the game. The Corvette ZR-1 is faster than cars 3x its price and the current record holder at the Nurburgring. Their focus for the last 10 years has just been on the trucks, and before you and everyone else faults them for that just remember that it was the most profitable segment since early to mid 90s. Shame on them for chasing profits! Its proven that Americans don't want small cars until gas gets around $3.50 - $4 so unless you outlaw trucks (what obama did) or artificially increase gas prices, there is no way to sell the smaller cars. Now we can argue the merits of tinkering with free market and required CAFE numbers, but that's for another discussion.

Its already been proven that the Government won't let anything happen to GM. Plus, GM has the best balance sheet in the industry because of it's bankruptcy. Have you seen any other automaker's debt-ratio lately?

This isn't the first plug-in the General has produced, remember the EV-1? I'm sure there's lots of lessons they learned from that endeavor that have been applied to the Volt. As far as plug-ins go, GM is the first and only only large automaker I know of that has produced one in the past (large = excludes tesla's 1,000 or so cars they want to produce per year).

And if I had some moderator points you'd be getting marked as -1 Troll for saying

Actually, you don't have to factor in battery replacements because GM is supplying the Volt with a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the Li batteries.

I live in Detroit where we don't have any jobs you insensitive clod!

Your whole majority rules speech is missing the part about minority rights...

Fuel isn't burnt because the traditional combustion engine is turned off and the vehicle runs off of battery power.

There is no light rail system in the world that can compete with a hybrid car in terms of environmental friendliness. Take a look at Patrick Bedard's article "Save Energy, Take the Car" from the December Car and Driver. '"Most light-rail systems use as much or more energy per passenger mile as the average passenger car, several are worse than the average light truck, and none is as efficient as a Prius,â writes Randal Oâ(TM)Toole in a new study from the Cato Institute titled âoeDoes Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"' http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/patrick_bedard/save_energy_take_the_car_column