Posted on 04/07/2013 7:22:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who often attacks Democrats for hurting small businesses, slammed American automakers Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive for being "losers" on her Facebook page.
Palin attacked Fisker Automotive for laying off 75 percent of its employees last Friday, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Palin also accused the Obama administration for supposedly attempting "to pick 'winners and losers' in the free market," but did not mention that for decades the federal government has made loans to businesses.
She showed additional contempt for hybrid electric cars by slamming General Motors' Volt, which tripled its sales in 2012, per CNN.com.
“This losing tax-subsidized venture joins other past losers like the Obama-subsidized Volt that gets 40 miles per battery charge, or like the Obama-subsidized Tesla that turns into a ‘brick’ when the battery completely discharges and then costs $40,000 to repair,” Palin angrily wrote on Facebook....
(Excerpt) Read more at opposingviews.com ...
"GM sold 23,461 Volts in 2012 compared with just 7,671 in 2011. While it's an impressive jump, the Volt is still one of Chevy's lowest-selling cars. However, the Volt greatly outdid the Corvette, for instance, of which only 14,000 were sold last year.
Its 2012 sales also put the Volt well ahead of its nearest competitor, the Nissan Leaf. Nissan sold about 9,800 Leafs in 2012, an increase of just 1.5% over 2011. Still, Nissan pointed out, it was a record year for Leaf sales."
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/03/autos/chevrolet-volt-sales/index.html
That is abysmal. The Corvette is an expensive, specialty two passenger car with a very limited market. The Leaf is an electric only car, which means once you're out of juice, you're stranded. The Volt is a hybrid with a gas engine in addition to the electric drive. Apples and oranges.
This idiot writer is clueless! She claims that Sarah never owned a business when she and her husband owned a commercial fishing company and also an ATV dealership and mechanic shop too
If the 23,461 Volts sold where purchased my the govmint?
Many of them were, yes.
How many of the Volts were mandated agency buys by the U.S. government?
Most, if not almost all?
Probably 95% of them.
Just because your dead beat Cousin is an American doesn't make him immune from criticism.
That is what these car companies are like, your 19 year old cousin who moved in with you and blowing your parents money while laughing all the way to buy some more weed from China.
lets try this again. Of the 23,461 Volts sold, how many where purchased by our govmint
Let these electronic wonders sell or die on their own in the free market. Let the chips fall where they may.
Why is she writing about someone who we are constantly told is irrelevant? Living rent-free in liberal heads 24/7. Love it!
That’s reVolting.
Lumping Tesla-Solyndra-GM as loans is like lumping illegal immigrants with immigrants.
It allows writer to step back and generalize rather than address the specifics.
Shame on him.
I’ve tried to do some searches to find out how many Chevy Volts the government has been buying, but it would seem that this information is being hidden under a rock.
I can get reports of some particular sales, or promises of sales, but the details are scanty and sometimes speculative. And the news sources seem to be entirely blogs and individuals—not the news media or the automotive magazines. They’ve obviously put a lid on this and have persuaded all the news media to hide the numbers or, presumably, face the consequences.
GO Sarah!
She’s a former half-term governor. That’s funny.
Leftists just can’t stand it when their messiah is called out for the abysmal failure that he is..so they use terms like “Half Term Governor” I have some terms that I can use to describe Obama..how about COMMUNIST PRICK..I have others but I can’t use that kind of language online
Don’t log in often, but for you I made the exception.
Moron.
This may be the second IBZ in my career.
Ed. Note: This article originally said that Sarah Palin has never owned her own business. That is incorrect.
Wasn’t The Messiah a half term Senator? Now the supposed athlete is not a fast, not a slow but a half fast President.
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