Posted on 03/04/2011 12:37:34 PM PST by Sneakyuser
Clearly it is time for another gubmint intervention.....(just like Prius and what’s the name for that Honda car?)
$4,500 incentives for every person buying one of these babies.
Nothing I've read about the Volt even hinted at the possibility that it's a time machine!
“Sales will improve when gas hits $5.”
Why? I can get a small car that gets the same gas mileage for half the price. $20,000 in gas at $5/gallon gives me 4,000 gallons of gas, which gives 140,000 miles, to work with.
C’mon you big libs - put your money where your mouths are!
How many do the Clintons, Gores, and Mickey Moores own?
(Oops, Moore would have to wait for the wide-track model to come out)
It's the very hallmark of Communism/Socialism. The committees decide what you get, and it's never what you want.
Welcome to .... "change" and "sacrifice".
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I was once told by a mechanic never buy a car when it first comes out. Wait until they improve it. Having said that, I bought a new CRV.
Moore runs his car off his own personal methane supply like all bloviating liberal gasbags!
Plug your address, plus HALF the range number (you have to get back home, doncha?) here: How far can I travel
You'll see how pitifully short the range turns out to be.
As cool as it would be (I'm an engineer, not a tree hugger) to have the first all-electric car on the block, my neighbors would be laughing their arses off at me as I pushed the damned thing home.
That old VW Beetle built character. Mine had a 36 HP engine that could get up to 70 mph with a tailwind. With a headwind applied to its flat bottom, it was a challenge to keep the front end from lifting off the highway. Passing involved a lot of planning and a few physics calculations. Math aptitude was addressed by the lack of a gas gauge, forcing my limited algebra to the max. No air-conditioning and precious little heat kept you from dozing at the wheel. The size of the Bug and the lack of seat belts taught me safe driving skills at an early age.
The car will work great so long as you are not in a place that ever gets too cold, too hot, is too hilly or has too much stop and go traffic or you carry any extras like a passenger, kids or groceries.
Other than that, it’s fine.
Oh, and expensive to buy.
I expanded your poem.
ELECTRIC CAR
I am just
An electric car
I can’t go fast;
I can’t go far.
When it’s cold
I stay near home,
my plug, keeping short
The distance from!
When I’m driving
In the night
Turn on only
One headlight (please!)
In the summer
In the heat
Batteries my air conditoner
Will deplete.
I am just
An electric car
I can’t go fast;
I can’t go far.
Irrrrrrumm! Erum —— mm
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When gas goes up, won’t oil prices also drive up the cost of a kilowatt of electricity?
Electric cars will never, in the near term anyway, justify their cost.
Good point.
The liberals want us to move to electric cars in a big way. But, the liberals fail to understand that if we had millions of electric cars in this country, that we would have to generate huge amounts of electricity in coal fired power plants to generate the electricity to re-charge the batteries. The liberals never think this through. Going in a big way to a “pollution free” electric car could actually result in more of the greenhouse gases they want to avoid.
Finally, a U.S. company beating the pants off foreign competition!!! (So, who’s buying the beer?)
Oh, and silver-cloud-lining-wise? At least there’ll be enough public charging stations if this sales rate keeps up!
No one wants to buy high priced and underpowered cars.
Even lefties are rejecting them.
So much for the Green Car Initiative!
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