GM temporarily halts production of Volt (1300 Union Dolts laid off)

The Hill ^ | March 2, 2012 | By Keith Laing

[Islander7]

GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees.

A GM spokesman told The Hill on Friday that production of the Volt would resume April 23.

"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand," GM spokesman Chris Lee said in a telephone interview.

[Islander7]

But Republicans have argued that the Volt was being pushed by the Obama administration for political reasons instead of consumer demand.

“Is the commitment to the American public or is the commitment to clean energy, that we are going to get there any way we can?” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) asked in a hearing in the House in January about the Volt's reported battery fires.

“When the market is ready … it won’t have to be subsidized,” Kelly said.

[relictele]

Market forces aren’t allowed to exist in Obama and the Democrats’ world.

This is why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were driven off a cliff.

[SandRat]

It's Dead. It's GM’s version of the Ford Edsel and nobody wants that dog.

[Brookhaven]

Announced on a Friday afternoon to minimize the news coverage.

[Right Wing Assault]

Obama said he’d buy one when he was out of office. Maybe he should resign and buy a Volt. Then he can claim he helped increase sales and create thousands of new jobs.

[TomGuy]

"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand," GM spokesman Chris Lee said in a telephone interview.

That spin is a classic!

[diogenes ghost]

"....meet market demand."

Stopping production will just about be spot-on.

[steve86]

GOVERNMENT DEMAND=”market demand”

[pallis]

I didn’t realize there was a market demand.

[Springman]

Went to the automotive news web site. 6,300 Volts in inventory and Jan sales were 603.

GM management strikes again.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

And there you have it folks!...The Volt becomes an instant classic and flop all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer! FUBO!

[InterceptPoint]

If GM had any brains they would rename the Volt. A better name: The Zero. It is such a fitting name - on so many levels.

[GonzoGOP]

Hey TruthGuy. I remember you calling me a whole bunch of names when I said there was no way the Volt would sell at the price they were selling it for. Well what say you now that they are closing down the production line?

[SandRat]

With all the reported Volt battery fires, I wonder if Ralf Nader is going to write an updated version of his book “Unsafe at any Speed.”

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“We see positive trends, but we needed to make this market adjustment,” he said....

“We see parked Volts, but we needed to make this market adjustment”......fixed it.

[princeofdarkness]

And this is the company that supposedly had a record setting profit year?!

LOL. As Bill Cosby used to say in his stand-up comedy routines...RRRRRiiiiggghhht.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Obama is blaming the media on this failure of his.

[EGPWS]

It's Dead.

So is socialism but come hell or high water the liberal die hard lifers in Washington will maintain it on life support thanks to hard working taxpayers.

[RightWingConspirator]

I lost all respect for Motor Trend Magazine when it, pandering to the Zerobama administration, named Chevy Volt “Car of the Year for 2011”. What a joke.

BTW, Chevy is running lots of ads for the Volt, and I gag and change channels when these ads come on.

[mylife]

"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand,"

Market demand? what market demand?!!