Who couldn’t see this one coming? Matter of fact, it was a dumb idea doomed to failure when it was on the drawing board. I’ve been telling you that for years, so have countless others. We all know this green nonsense is inefficient, costly, and doesn’t work, why some people and company’s insist it will is beyond me, especially when time and time again, more often than not, we are finding out on a daily basis that it is a failure after one green company after another goes bankrupt.

Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers at 64 stores, mostly in California but also some in Arizona, New York and Georgia. Even after General Motors crushed its EV1 battery cars, the Costco chargers stayed in place.

Yet just as plug-in cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt enter the market, Costco is reversing course and pulling its chargers out of the ground, explaining that customers do not use them.

“We were early supporters of electric cars, going back as far as 15 years. But nobody ever uses them,” said Dennis Hoover, the general manager for Costco in northern California, in a telephone interview. “At our Folsom store, the manager said he hadn’t seen anybody using the E.V. charging in a full year. At our store in Vacaville, where we had six chargers, one person plugged in once a week.”

Nobody with even a small amount of common sense should be surprised by this. Supply and demand… free markets. We don’t want those vehicles, period. Since Chevrolet only sold 127 Volts in all of last year, well, do you see where that “great idea” is going? That’s right, to the landfill where it belongs.

Mr. Hoover said that E.V. charging was “very inefficient and not productive” for the retailer.

Here’s something else to think about if you’re actually simple enough to be contemplating the purchase of a Volt, Leaf, or any other electric car.

Earlier today we were telling you about the impending Obama-EPA rules set to take effect that will make the cost of energy skyrocket, just like Obama promised back in 2008. They’re going after coal which produces 50% of the electricity in the United States, and the local power utilities. What do you suppose will happen to the electric rates? Well of course they’ll skyrocket. So that means it will cost a small fortune to charge your electric car. It’ll be cheaper to fill a car with gas or diesel, than to plug-in for a charge. Bonus with gas and diesel, you can travel hundreds of miles further on a tank of fuel than a full charge, and fueling up only takes a few minutes, charging up… a few hours.