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If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

Posted on 10/22/2012 7:18:31 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill

I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH, so the Volt will cost me less than $200 per year to charge. I also rarely drive more than 20 miles per day.

I will lease/but one if they are giving them away, and the thought of owning a limited run car is attractive.

But, If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?


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To: diogenes ghost

“For all intensive purposes...”

Pretty sure that was supposed to be;

“For all in tents and porpoises.”


21 posted on 10/22/2012 7:34:54 AM PDT by moovova (I work well with others, as long as they leave me alone.)
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To: tobyhill
“I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH”

My electric rates are double that.


13.10¢ per kWH for all kWH in Wilson, NC. It's horrible.
22 posted on 10/22/2012 7:39:01 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Renderofveils

There’s another factor: The Charging Station. The US paid $106,000 to have two installed in Switzerland. Does anybody know what they cost here?


23 posted on 10/22/2012 7:42:07 AM PDT by anoldafvet (One million people attended Obama's inauguration, 14 of them missed work)
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To: Tax-chick
If the president can do that, we might as well all move to Cuba where the dictator makes every industrial decision by this personal whim.

Then you're four years late in moving. 0 did that when he pushed the "green energy" BS with taxpayer dollars in the first place. 0 and his fellow "progressives" love Cuba and want the US to be an economic powerhouse just like it.

24 posted on 10/22/2012 7:42:07 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: SumProVita; All
"intensive purposes"

Ah lernt dis phrase in grammr schul an I beleeve it is "for all intents and purposes."

25 posted on 10/22/2012 7:45:46 AM PDT by davisfh
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To: Renderofveils

If Obama stays in power, you will look back on $.1310 per KWH as “The Good Old Days”.


26 posted on 10/22/2012 7:45:50 AM PDT by anoldafvet (One million people attended Obama's inauguration, 14 of them missed work)
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To: anoldafvet
Does anybody know what they cost here?

This might be helpful.
27 posted on 10/22/2012 7:48:21 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: anoldafvet

It will charge from dead flat to full charge in about 12 hours on a standard 110VAC line.

A $1000 220 VAC charger will shorten that time to 4-6 hours.

I almost always have my car in the garage by 9 PM and drive it beginning at 7:30 AM. I we go out later, we would take another car.

I also have a 1962 Studebaker Hawk GT, so I kinda like these odd cars.


28 posted on 10/22/2012 7:48:36 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: anoldafvet

They are priced at about $2,000 each. However, that does not include installation or possible upgrade of your home electrical system to handle the extra load. Good news though, they will work with any of the other electric cars coming on to the market.


29 posted on 10/22/2012 7:51:18 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: from occupied ga

...or the evolution of language. Lol!

Remember the great vowel shift!


30 posted on 10/22/2012 7:52:05 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

If Romney wins, GM will survive as an independent automobile company. It will be precisely because of private enterprise and our capitalist system, and despite the harmful input of the government.


31 posted on 10/22/2012 7:53:31 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Tax-chick

I expect him to sell GM off to the highest bidder, which will likely be Chinese or Korean. Then he will roll back CAFE standards. Between the two, GM’s new overlords will drop the Volt like a hot rock.


32 posted on 10/22/2012 7:59:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

Andy,

If you only drive 18 miles roundtrip like me they may make sense. There were 2 & 3 year leases available on Volts available for $200/$129 per month.
However, I would never purchase one. It is not a good investment. If you want a classic car that is going to appreciate in value buy a used Ferrari or something like that. Also, I would not park one of these cars in my garage. You do not want to take the chance that it could burn your house down.


33 posted on 10/22/2012 8:00:55 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

If there is a market for the Volt, it will live. If not, it will die. Romney has bigger things to worry about, like getting the government out of the way of free enterprise.


34 posted on 10/22/2012 8:07:04 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

I wouldn’t buy one, but they’re giving them away on 2 year leases just to get them on the road.


35 posted on 10/22/2012 8:10:17 AM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: woodbutcher1963

The lease deals are up to $299/month for 36 months, so they have backed off from the crazy low pricing a bit.

Great point about the fire risk! I would feel OK running a 10 GA 110 VAC extension cord to a Volt sitting in the drive way.

Oh, well, thanks for all of the insight.

ABO = Romney/Ryan 2012


36 posted on 10/22/2012 8:10:26 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

One of the appeals of communism, especially to young and insecure people, is the inference of elitism.

You see, the people won’t WANT what’s best in the “big picture”, so choices on items like the Volt will have to be made for them by their “betters”.


37 posted on 10/22/2012 8:10:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: woodbutcher1963
A former Fisker, not a Volt, but point well taken.


38 posted on 10/22/2012 8:12:11 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (If Obama is an empty chair, then Biden is the whoopee cushion.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

Of course having said they are a bad investment, lets pretend and flash forward to the Barrett Jackson auction in 2052. I still would find it hard to believe that the 2012 Volt would be going for $100k. I think more likely the 2012 Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra would be the better long term investment.


39 posted on 10/22/2012 8:17:12 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: anoldafvet
If Obama stays in power, you will look back on $.1310 per KWH as “The Good Old Days”.

you are quite right, and no one should be surprised. After all, one 0's campaign promises was that in his administration electricity costs would necessarily skyrocket.

i think that McCain could have won if he'd used 0's own words in the campaign (and not go AWOL when the banks imploded.). But he was mostly concerned about being nice to the Negro.

Not that we would have been much better off under McCain. It's arguable we'd be in een worse shape.

40 posted on 10/22/2012 8:20:45 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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