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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SCALING BACK ELECTRIC CAR GOALS
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| 5-22-15
| Jeff Jablanski
Posted on 05/23/2015 6:52:30 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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No surprise.
To: smokingfrog
Given where most of obama's policies come from the only surprise is an attempt to adjust for "reality".
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posted on
05/23/2015 6:57:01 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: smokingfrog
Apparently, the proven liar Obama did not get the memo.
If a government program is not working, you are supposed to throw more money at it.
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posted on
05/23/2015 6:57:15 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(American Jobs for American Workers)
To: smokingfrog
Communists always revise their Five Year Plan numbers.
It is never reality that troubles them, only the perceptions of the duped.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:01:40 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Caipirabob
Don’t disparage the Fairy Tale Treasury. You can learn some life lessons from that book.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:02:12 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
No surprise indeed. And what’s even better is, not even subsidies can save dirty green energy at lower gas prices.
Bye-bye electric cars.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:10:22 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Life is good.)
To: smokingfrog
If this commie president of ours had ever held a job in the private sector or run a business before taking office, he would have known you can't mandate something because of political ideology if the technology (storage batteries) is not there yet or the market demand is not there. If people don't want electric cars, then electric cars will not sell.
But we've wasted who knows how many hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to launch this Marxist's dream of electric cars. More of somebody else's money down another socialist's rathole.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:15:10 AM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: HotHunt
"Scaling back" = Yet another leftist FAIL Fools...Losers... Hahahaha...............
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:19:06 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: smokingfrog
“OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SCALING BACK ELECTRIC CAR GOALS”
Actually, I think the laws of physics scaled their “goals” back for them some time ago.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:19:53 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: smokingfrog
Gas is $4 plus in California, for a variety of reasons.
Zero also wanted 54 mpg fleet averages in the near future. Never will happen. My liberal friends have a Prius, but also a Buick SUV. They will never give up the SUV.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:23:34 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: smokingfrog
I forget to add:
“OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SCALING BACK ELECTRIC CAR GOALS”
Actually, I think the laws of physics scaled their “goals” back for them some time ago. Besides, the electric car “goals” already accomplished what was really intended: billions of taxpayer dollars funneled into the hands of Democrat crony “capitalists” including enough for quid pro quo kickbacks, uh, I mean campaign “donations”, as well as a new permanent constituency dependent on continuous free money from the taxpayers along with their new set of lobbyists.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:24:18 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:40:04 AM PDT
by
SMM48
To: smokingfrog
hold everything Democrat Front Runner. Mrs Bill Clinton has the ANSWER!!!
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:41:40 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: smokingfrog
IMHO, cars powered by other than fossil fuels will be viable. Someday. Maybe 20 or 30 years from now.
By then, all cars will be self-driving, supposedly.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:50:16 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
To: smokingfrog
Electric cars already proved themselves, were gathered up, and smashed. In the 70s.
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posted on
05/23/2015 7:54:53 AM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: SMM48
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:17:36 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: upchuck
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:23:29 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
A more viable goal is hybrids and plug-in hybrids with extended electric range. Thanks to better drivetrain technology, the new version of the Chevrolet Volt drives more like a "normal" car but still has around 45-50 miles of pure-electric range.
What's interesting is that Europe is interested, too. Their recent infatuation with turbodiesel engines show that it wasn't worth the higher NOx and particulate emissions in order to get lower CO2 emissions; that's why all the major European automakers are building hybrid supercars essentially to test technologies that will filter down to lower-cost vehicles over the next ten years.
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:36:17 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: smokingfrog
Obama finds out central planning really doesn’t work.
Doesn’t care.
The only surprising thing is that the administration
didn’t comment that electrik kar sales double with
new five year plan.
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:40:52 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: smokingfrog
IMHO, the charging time of batteries means far less than the frequency of charging.
If an electric car can be produced that has a 300+ mile range on a charge, I’ll be impressed.
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posted on
05/23/2015 10:03:14 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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