[Casie]

Every tax payer should get a box in the mail with a little paper weight size piece of Chevy Volt and a 2 foot length of that glow-in-the-dark glass tubing from Solyndra in it.

[rlmorel]

We are never going to see that money.

[rlmorel]

I do believe one of the most dangerous, corrosive and destructive aspects of this is the way the bond holders, with legal contracts, simply got stiffed.

If a contract means nothing in this country, then our economy is doomed.

[Vinnie]

GM even bragged that it was able to “repay the taxpayers in full, with interest, ahead of schedule, because more customers are buying [GM] vehicles.” There was great fanfare, including expensive, around-the-clock GM TV commercials nationwide. But, the hype is not the reality. In fact, GM did not repay the loans with money it earned from selling cars. Instead, GM repaid the TARP loans with money it withdrew from another TARP fund at the Treasury Department.”

So, they paid off one credit card using another credit card.

I think there's a name for that practice. :^)

[BobL]

Liberals don’t like this math, but they used it first to discredit programs that they didn’t want.

Take the B2 Bomber. We spent $30B to develop it, and then were going to spend something like $500M each to build something like 132 of the planes. Unit cost: $727M each including development, or “$727M each” in Liberal terms.

Then, in two steps, they cut back the order to 20 production planes. Total cost of the program is $40B ($30B for development and $10B for production).

And for the next 10 years, CBS calls it: “The Two Billion Dollar B2 Bomber”, and the liberals whine because each one costs so much.

So it’s fun to hit them back with the same math, although the people doing it likely never did the math for the B2, they just accepted CBS’s word for it.

[Venturer]

The Volt only costs $40,000 dollars.

Where the hell am I supposed to get $40,000 dollars to buy a car?

I drive a Toyota I bought used for $17,000 dollars 6 years ago. I cannot even dream of owning a $40,000 dollar car and if I did it would be Lexus,or a Cadillac ,not a Volt.

Damn has anyone seen the price of new full sized Pickup truck lately?

[csmusaret]

News flash for Slo Joe Biden: Al-Qaeda is alive and GM is dying.

[Eye of Unk]

I wish GM would sell a 3500 series extended cab dually with the 8.1 liter Vortec that was discontinued some years ago but now its a multifuel engine, can run on gas or CNG.
I have a 2002 model with that engine, best truck ever, and I may just install my own CNG option, and my own at home natural gas compressor.

But if GM has a new 2014 model with this option I might buy new, if not I’m keeping the 2002, its still very reliable after 10 years.

[when the time is right]

I love those ads about the Volt where owners say it is the perfect car for them because they only drive 40 miles a day.
If you spent $40,000 on a car and only drive it 40 miles a day you are an idiot and if you only drive 40 miles a day and truly believe in saving the environment then get a bike.