Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. The Volt is a hybrid. And it qualifies for a 7500 credit I guess. I don’t work for GM so how would that have anything to do with me? I don’t work for the govenment so the tax credit...well I didn’t have anything to do with that either. I have no idea what size battery the Volt has in it. Maybe you need to talk to someone who “claims” the gas engine never kicks in?
And finally, no I didn’t realize the article was talking about, as a matter of fact I didn’t pay attention, I guess, to anything about the cars that qualify for a 7500 tax credit. Heck, that doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. But then again I’m a conservative and I dont’ think the govt. should be picking winners and losers.
That explains a lot. Like many others, you take the criticism of the Volt personally and automatically attack the messenger as having ulterior motives, like working for an oil company or having a right wing agenda. I’m sure GM condones that, as they have tried to falsely blame low Volt sales on a Republican conspiracy at one point.
So, let me try to clarify. Many of us feel it is wrong to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on what you would call, “an engineering experiment.” The wealthy buyers of Volts should not get $7500 each from the rest of us. It is also wrong for GM and the Obama Administration to lie to the public about the potential and the demand for the Volt, just as it is wrong for GM and the UAW to take billions of taxpayer dollars and then help reelect Obama.
The Volt is in no way going to wean America off of oil. It is not worth the billions of taxpayer dollars that have been poured into it. GM should stop being dishonest about demand. As you well know, most of the Volts “sold” were actually short term leases subsidized by taxpayers, GM, and Ally Financial. I’m sure GE will play it’s part by continuing to purchase the cars as they sell charging stations in a further example of cronyism.
Let me ask a question you do have an answer to, what is the residual on a 2 year Volt lease? I’ll bet it is a lot higher than government-owned Ally Financial will get for the Volts once the lease is over.
I don’t care about what an engineering marvel the Volt is, even though I am not impressed with a car that cost twice as much as a comparable gas powered car, goes 35 miles (less than 25 in the cold) on an 8 hour charge and then gets about 30 mpg (from CR) on premium fuel after that. Stop wasting taxpayer money on this green boondoggle and admit that the Volt is not what it was cracked up to be.