Price or cost: Company executives have said the Leaf--without the batteries--could be priced close to what a regular car of that size would cost.

FORBES: Backseat Driver

Another straw in the wind is the continuing disregard about the implications of a U.S. collapse in Iraq (with or without the Baker et.al. diplomatic fig-leaf) for our security here at home.

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But these studies have, for years, given politicians enough of a fig leaf to sneak what are effectively outright corporate subsidies through the courts without running afoul of the gift clause.

FORBES: Constitutional Protection Against the Corporate State

"It's used as a fig leaf, and we decided that for the time being, we're better off without it, " Mekel says.

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