My point exactly...this hybrid vehicle was designed with features and convenience in mind...and let me tell you, I find the auxillary 120 volt receptacles a waaaay cool idea.

Now, if it also helped FE that would be something else.
Perhaps GM did not want to infringe on Honda's IMA patents?

The U.S. has reached a point “where the priorities of Congress could become so distorted by politics” that it would turn its back on the next great global industry, clean power — Rhone Resch