Please! I would *love* to ride my plain old bike (OK, as plain as a recumbent gets) back and forth to work. I have done so in two other stages of life. However, I'm not in good enough shape to get all the way to work and back in less than about 3 hours, and don't have that kind of time, and I'm having trouble finding the time to get into good enough shape to lessen the time needed.

Don't compare electric bikes to regular bikes. Compare them to scooters or cars. Enough silliness!