Ferrari, Porsche, and other exotic sports-car makers are planning, or at least thinking about gasoline-electric hybrid supercars. My first response was, “Why?”
Even a prediction by an oil company executive of $5 per gallon gasoline by 2012 didn’t answer the question: Gasoline is the cheapest thing Ferrari and Porsche owners will ever put in their vehicles, some passengers excepted.
As a neo-Libertarian, I immediately suspected the hairy hidden hand of big government. I think I’m right.
Paris (France, not Texas) is considering banning vehicles that emit more than an as-yet undecided amount of carbon dioxide per kilometer. (We fought several wars to avoid the metric system, but it’s creeping back.) It’s almost certain that every 600-plus horsepower supercar would exceed whatever level Paris might impose. The entire European Union, or, at least, crowded cities such as Zurich, Rome, and Madrid would probably follow Paris’ lead.
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