I could have told you that thing is not going to sell.
Another “Green” scam bites the dust!
Government should not be investing in specific companies and trying to pick winners and losers. They got gamed by their own greed.
Do you really grow artichokes? They are my favorite!
In fact, what business is there may want out.
Ahh, but the smell of garlic as you descend down 152 into those lush valleys. What a very pretty place it is.
Hoopties 4 Hybrids
Money was stolen... bit by bit.
Salinas said it will review everything it did with the company and learn for the experience to be smarter next time.
Not likely.... Not at all.
Liberals don't seem to be smart enough to ever learn from their failures.
At least the townsfolk didn't lose their homes.
-PJ
I could have told you that thing is not going to sell.
Monorail !
“Green Vehicles was awarded nearly $2.8 million from Ca Energy Commission but could never get investors to match the funding.”
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The clear difference between spending other people’s money, and spending your own.
We did not emerge from the stone edge because we ran out of rocks had more government regulations or government subsidies. We advanced civilization because man was free to imagine and risks were rewarded.
“You can’t cheat an honest man.” — W.C. Fields
$540,000? That’s a drop in the bucket when you’re talking about building cars. Maybe Salinas should have gotten a clue when they were asked for only $540,000.
Next one will be Gore’s $81K electric car company and the the Delaware plant they are planning. A lot of RATs, including Biden, are going to have the spin machines going 24/7.
Too expensive to grow in California.
Too expensive to grow in California.
The thing was to cost $25K plus another $2.5K for air conditioning and $495 for an iPod docking cradle and $495 for a rear fender.
Why would anyone with a brain buy one of these when you can get a fully functional, reliable car like the Prius that’s only half as ugly for the same money?
But here’s the answer:
“yes, I am going to give progressive people a way to protect what they love; yes, I am going to be the most affordable solution for clean commuters; and yes, I am going to do it in a seriously handsome fashion.”
I want mine in either “Marigold Red” or “Green Fun”.
What’s in the water in California? Are they all that gullible?
It seems that the “touchy-feely”, warm and fuzzy greenies have gone wild there. Of course they don’t live in the real world and dreams replace reality.
This “flim-flam” man easily fooled the people of Salinas into thinking that the whole world would go crazy to buy these $30,000+ pieces of crap and the city would become the new mecca of green manufacturing enterprises.
Lack of investors was to blame? No, it was lack of fools who would invest........for example........the government.
By the way, that’s about the ugliest thing I have ever seen.
I wan’t born with enough middle fingers to fully express how sorry I am that their utopian “green” dream hit the rocks of reality.