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Through the first six months of this year, combined sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt nationwide totaled fewer than 7,000 cars.

Ah, yes, the free market at it's finest!

Give me a nuclear powered car and I might buy one.

1 posted on 07/28/2011 8:01:30 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping-a-lingy!


2 posted on 07/28/2011 8:02:23 PM PDT by PROCON (Don't even get me started on man-made globalwarming!)
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To: PROCON

Setting up for free green cars to buy inner city votes.


3 posted on 07/28/2011 8:03:42 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Let the nation collapse. DNC vote buys killed it.)
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To: PROCON

‘Hoopties for Hybrids’.

Bwwwwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!


4 posted on 07/28/2011 8:04:30 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
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To: PROCON

No self respecting black guy would be caught dead riding around in one of those glorified golf carts.


5 posted on 07/28/2011 8:05:27 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: PROCON

May I interest you in a Los Angeles class vessel?


6 posted on 07/28/2011 8:06:15 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Democrats: debt, dependence and derision)
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To: PROCON

Cars that run on petroleum-based fuels are the most efficient. It has always been thus.


8 posted on 07/28/2011 8:08:04 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Liberal Era is over.)
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To: PROCON

The Greenlining Institute? I never leave the house without finding out their latest insights.


9 posted on 07/28/2011 8:09:43 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Liberal Era is over.)
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To: PROCON

Racist? It’s just comment sense. Would you rather have a Leaf or a Caddy?


10 posted on 07/28/2011 8:10:07 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: PROCON

Due to the mandatory bling requirement the weight of a average minority outweighs the cost-effectivness of a electric cars This requires a waiverlicious decree. So let it be said, so let it be done.


11 posted on 07/28/2011 8:10:21 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: PROCON

But why talk about minorities, since the salvage value of these vehicles is zero, it means a world where poor people have no cars.


12 posted on 07/28/2011 8:11:35 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: PROCON

Maybe they can market electric vehicle products like the Chevy Pookie or the Mini Van Jones.


13 posted on 07/28/2011 8:11:35 PM PDT by edpc (I disagree. Circle gets the square.)
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To: PROCON
Blacks may be stupid enough to vote obama 2012, but even they are not stupid enough to waste their money on a Volt.
15 posted on 07/28/2011 8:19:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: PROCON

People of color don’t give a crap about green.


16 posted on 07/28/2011 8:19:36 PM PDT by Baynative (If the government was in charge of the desert , we'd soon have a shortage of sand.)
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To: PROCON
I'm a 32 year old, white, christian, male, college graduate and I have no car because I'm poor. I ride a bicycle to work for minimum wage, so don't give me any of that minority b.s.
17 posted on 07/28/2011 8:22:20 PM PDT by conservativeimage (I'll be civil when the government stops crushing my balls.)
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To: PROCON
A Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California survey from last year found that 72 percent of Asian Americans and 85 percent of Latinos said that they were very concerned about air pollution.

If I lived in Southern California, I would be concerned about air polution too. Knowing that the Valley has been called "The Valley of Smoke" since long before Leif Ericson ever set foot in America, I would simply move out if it bothered me that much.

19 posted on 07/28/2011 8:29:01 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: PROCON
No electric cars in the ghetto? Jeez, I thought environmentally sensitive low riders were all the rage.


20 posted on 07/28/2011 8:29:24 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: PROCON
This is small thinking engineered by environmentalist propaganda. Our current line of automobiles do not harm the environment. We eliminated lead additives years ago and we now use the catalytic converters. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a natural compound.

By telling industry that future car must be electric or an internal combustion that will get 57 miles per gallon of fuel cripples our ingenuity. Developing any other possibilities is thought crime.

I will never buy an auto with a $25,000 battery or a sardine can powered by a model airplane engine.

23 posted on 07/28/2011 8:35:51 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: PROCON
Last car I bought, I deliberately went looking for a gas-eater. I got a five year old Town & Country for about $12k.
It gets a little over 17 mpg. The current model's base price without any options is a little over $25,000 and it gets 25mpg highway.

Using rounded numbers, I have a $12,000 surplus to use on gas. Let's say I only get 15mpg and the new T&C gets 30. At $4.00/ gallon, that's about $1300 extra I spend on gas per 10,000 miles each year, which means I can drive for a little over 9 years before I hit the $24,000 figure of the new gas miser.

I guess in 2020 I'll pick up a 2015 model & do it all over again.

31 posted on 07/29/2011 12:10:13 AM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: PROCON

I’m sure (but don’t have the statistics, just my humble opinion) that minorities like Jews or Chinese or indians or koreans or japanese - americans have a higher % of electric/hybrid car ownership..


32 posted on 07/29/2011 2:20:45 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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