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1 posted on 02/07/2012 9:47:18 AM PST by tobyhill
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2 posted on 02/07/2012 9:50:51 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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I guess the Fisker isn’t selling... because I haven’t heard of any of them catching fire...:)


3 posted on 02/07/2012 9:53:51 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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Gore-Backed Car Firm, Fisker, Gets Large U.S. Loan - WSJ.com

http://is.gd/6skexQ


4 posted on 02/07/2012 10:12:43 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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From the poor taxpayer's standpoint Fisker should be renamed “Fister.”
5 posted on 02/07/2012 10:13:36 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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These guys don’t make cars,
Fisker, Aptera, Karma...
It’s just vaporware.

They produce a cool looking prototype and use it to bilk credulous investors looking to cash in on the next big thing. The problem is made much, much worse when the government drops money into the scam, increasing the confidence of investors, resulting in much more money being sunk into the project.

Eventually it goes toes-up, and it is the investors and government who wind up holding the bag.

But the last thing any of these “car” companies want to do is build cars. That is too much work. It is far more profitable to just rake in investor cash and squirrel it away in offshore accounts. Fisker solves that problem by making the car so expensive than absolutely nobody wants to buy one. Therefore they don’t have to build one.


7 posted on 02/07/2012 10:32:41 AM PST by Haiku Guy (The problem with Internet quotes is you never know if they are real -- Abraham Lincoln)
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9 posted on 02/07/2012 11:11:30 AM PST by pabianice (")
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