GM's Volt to Help Cause Rolling Blackouts?

The enviro-nuts are screaming with delight over GM's new Volt, which apparently can get up to 230 mpg. Unfortunately as the NY Post points out, this requires the car to be plugged in to the electric grid at least once a day - which means that if even a small fraction of households were to use the car, it would cause blackouts.

Nuclear power is a cheap, efficient form of energy - but the same folks buying the Volt will likely be protesting the building of new plants. The good news is that Florida just ok'd its first nuclear plant in decades. The bad news is that it won't be operational for at least another decade and according to banks involved in the financing, it has already been in the works for over a decade. That investment and time commitment means that it's not going to be cheap to get that electricity either.