Chevy Volt Follows Stupid 2012 with Stupider 2013

Townhall.com ^ | February 11, 2013 | John Ransom

[Doogle]

Odungomotors

[raybbr]

And I’m guessing that most everyone would agree that buying a $30,000 car that gets 35 miles between all-night, plug-in charges is just stupid. Even for middle class liberals.

I wouldn't bet against it...

[Youngman542012]

If you take 80 billion dollars from your Uncle...you better build what your uncle wants...and Obama wants an electric car...so it will be built...Obama will make government agencies buy them...thousands of them...they do not car..its not their money...they just print it

[cripplecreek]

Liberals love getting others to pay for their stupidity even if the can afford it themselves.

Electric Car Owners Get a Free Ride in Ann Arbor

No argument can be made that electric car owners are somehow in need of a subsidy.
A 2012 survey of electric vehicle drivers
found that the vast majority come from households earning more than $100,000 per year, and are predominantly, in the words of the study, "...very well-educated, upper-middle class, white men in their early 50’s..."

[sasquatch]

More than 48 Volts can be fatal.

[rstrahan]

They have to “sell” 1% of their cars in CA as electrics in order to do business there. The loss per car is $9000 for the Chevy version, that everyone else subsidizes. That will increase as the percentage is to increase.

[bert]

When the President of the United States is flogging you with a cat of nine tails in a pressurized steam room, it is hard to concentrate and design a “purpose-built” car by next week.

Taking bits and pieces of CAD drawings in the hard drive and cobbling something together is quicker and stops the pain.

[Iron Munro]

GM Bailout = A way for the Obama government to funnel welfare to high paid labor union members in return for financial contributions and votes.

[bert]

———to funnel welfare to high paid labor union members-——

To funnel money stolen from bondholder pensions to overpaid lazy union members

[C. Edmund Wright]

GM Bailout = A way for the Obama government to funnel welfare to high paid labor union members in return for financial contributions and votes.

Correct,and worth repeating, so I repeated it. Also: Chevy Volt: = such a disaster that it's kept around just to really tick off those of us who understand the equation above.

[GeronL]

how many of those Volts were sold to government agencies/contractors?

[Fresh Wind]

GM has built some crapmobile Cadillacs in the past, sounds like they are keeping with tradition.

[Kenny Bunk]

What you and your anti-government VRWC pals have completely overlooked is that The Chevy* Volt is perfect for Alaska, Saskatchewan, and Maine.

Its uncanny ability to spontaneously combust can warm stranded motorists for hours. In addition, by using the optional trailer-towed, steam-powered portable generator, small villages near the event can have enough electricity for up to 1/2 hour of Internet Connectivity, or Cable TV.

This may not sound like a lot of connected time, but with timely reports from Homeland Security, relayed instantly to the Obama Ready Room and ESPN Hot Spot, the POTUS can use that brief interlude to address the:
(a) survivors of the fire, promising them instant Federal Aid and registering them to vote if they have overlooked this duty, due perhaps to recent arrival in the country.
(b) the lucky villagers within whose bounds the event occurred will get the briefing on why snow and sub-zero temperatures are the result of Bush-caused Global Warming.

*(We always say "Chevy" Volt instead of "Chevrolet" as it makes us Left-Wing Elitist Folks sound ...well ...more "folksy.")

[D Rider]

Yes, but they could be used as golf carts with the optional "Club Caddy" attachment.

This, of course, is a very nice feature.

[ontap]

I'm holding off on the Volt...eventually Obama will send me a check to go get one....just doing my part to save the turtles!!

[RJS1950]

What percentage of the 2012 34% of goal was actually “sold” to the government?

FUBO & FAD

[Elsie]

You find it hard to believe that a mostly-owned subsidiary of the United States government and the Obama administration United States Taxpayer!

[Elsie]

Because as a result they have introduced a Cadillac version of the Volt power plant just to make the stupidity a bit pricier.

No one has ever accused Hollywood liberals as being smart; but come ON!!

Would YOU rather be seen doin' yer 'green thing' in a Chevy or a Caddy?

[Mr. Lucky]

35 miles on a charge? Wow, that’s only 5 miles worse than the $2,900 Citicar from 35 years ago.