So Obama is subsidizing the rich. Nice work, Barrack.
Actually, only the rich, and you+me+taxpayers.
The Chevy Volt costs $41,000 -- and I think that's AFTER a $7,500 subsidy from the federal government.
As someone pointed out on another thread: if you multiply that by the number of Volts that Chevy wants to sell this year, it's nearly a billion dollars.
However, Chevy has reportedly only sold a few hundred Volts so far this year. So, maybe we don't need to worry much about it.
Having test driven an electric vehicle this past weekend, I came away unimpressed and uninterested.
Power lacking and limited range, and no engine “purr”.
Not for me or many, I suspect.
I’d rather have this:
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1056083_alfa-romeo-4c-concept-2011-geneva-motor-show
You think rich liberal will buy it to set an example for the rest of us?
EPA approves wider use of destructive corn ethanol
• Car owners whose engines and catalytic converters may be damaged even as auto makers void their warranties.
• Owners of lawnmowers, outboard motors, chain saws, ATVs and a host of other outdoor tools whose engines will break down if they’re fueled with E15.
• The environment, as this misguided policy encourages all-out corn production and the massive water pollution that results, ultimately reinforcing the devastating “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay.
• Birds and other wildlife, which will lose habitat as large-scale farmers expand into marginal and highly erodible land.
And who was the winner from EPA’s ill-advised decision? Just one group: the corn ethanol lobby and corn growers, who already profit from taxpayer-funded tax credits and grants for small producers, a tax credit for blending ethanol with gasoline, government mandates to boost ethanol use and tariffs that block imports from offshore sources.
I can fill up a gas tank in 5 minutes. Call me when you can charge up an e-vehicle in the same amount of time.
Ford, a large corporation, having the guts to tell the truth. Nice job. Ditto the CEO of 3M and the CEO of Intel a few months back.
Electric cars are only for fools.
That prompted Obama to name Immelt as his new Economic Advisor and put him in charge of job creation and spuring the sick economy. You don't spose Immelt thinks Gov money is the way to goose the economy....do you???
Them Electric Vehicles shore takes one a long way!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/obama-picks-jeffrey-immel-ge-jobs-overseas_n_812502.html
...yeah I know it's Huffington Post - but it was the best article out of Google.
Of course only the rich will be able to buy electric cars. The elites want us the masses to get places using mass transit and bicycles. It keeps us under control and them with a clear road.
Ricj and Stupid.
Ricj and Stupid.
We need Congress to legislate better battery technology as the last 100 years haven’t resulted in any improvements in production electric vehicle range.
Nice Porsche photo...
I have a relative who works for the Feds as an undercover drug officer. The government provides him with a hybrid but he has to use the gasoline engine 100 percent of the time because of all the radios and other electronics that are in the car. Go figure.
They are for the foolish of any means. Money
poured down a rathole for an ill conceived
device.
Gas Powered Muscle Car = For the Guy who has some balls.
electric Powered car = For the Guy who has no balls.
Is this called evolution? Or the end of the Human Species?
Hey I like my Ford Escape, Ford Escort ZX2 and my Volkswagen Cabriolet (okay I inherited this one, so shoot me why don’t you).
If Johnny (& Chang) jumps off the roof of the building are you going to?