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Success?… Obama Hails Opening of Michigan Plant That Makes $33,000 Car Battery
Gateway Pundit ^ | Monday, September 13, 2010 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 09/13/2010 2:21:18 PM PDT by curth

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1 posted on 09/13/2010 2:21:24 PM PDT by curth
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But, in his parlance it is a success.
He’s wasting American muscle, might, and money on do nothing projects for foreign countries [exporting the batteries?] instead of investing it in actual useful American growth.
Hence, “success.”
If it hurts America, he’s all for it.


2 posted on 09/13/2010 2:26:24 PM PDT by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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http://www.all-battery.com/ProductImages/lithium/CR123Ax50.jpg


3 posted on 09/13/2010 2:27:00 PM PDT by org.whodat
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So affordable for all those unemployed people.


4 posted on 09/13/2010 2:28:06 PM PDT by chiefqc
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“This is about the birth of an entire new industry in America, an industry that’s going to be central to the next generation of cars,”

Yep, let's kick things off with a 100 mile battery to replace a 500 mile fuel tank.

Now that's what I calll puttin it in reverse.

5 posted on 09/13/2010 2:29:48 PM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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The government has estimated that a battery with a 100-mile range costs about $33,000, although stimulus money could bring that down to $10,000 by the end of 2015.

Why not give them away for free? It just takes an hour or two of running the presses to print the money........

6 posted on 09/13/2010 2:30:09 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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Yep, let’s kick things off with a 100 mile battery to replace a 500 mile fuel tank.

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That costs twice as much as the car with the 500 mile fuel tank!


7 posted on 09/13/2010 2:33:15 PM PDT by pgkdan (When the same man...holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty: George Mason)
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So, is anyone who buys one these batteries automatically added to Obama's "raise my taxes" list because they're too rich?

-PJ

8 posted on 09/13/2010 2:34:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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Volt BHO


9 posted on 09/13/2010 2:39:08 PM PDT by FrankR (It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
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I believe that this is the same Factory that was supplying the government with $250 hammers and $600 toilet seats...


10 posted on 09/13/2010 2:44:38 PM PDT by kik5150
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Yes yes-

Photo ops at the local wind generator, green battery plant, or organic farmer.........

I want to hurl.


11 posted on 09/13/2010 2:45:58 PM PDT by Red6 (IMHO)
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“although stimulus money could bring that down to $10,000 by the end of 2015.”
The energizer bunny wants a piece of that action. He has been working for minimum wage all these years.


12 posted on 09/13/2010 2:51:26 PM PDT by JimmyMc
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Has anyone taken a look at the cost of charging stations for those batteries?

This charging station for the Nissan Leaf costs $2200, half of which will be subsidized by our tax dollars. Here is Nissan's professional installation ticket:

Need two cars? You might need an electrical sub panel installed.

13 posted on 09/13/2010 2:51:26 PM PDT by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fabian Socialism.)
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No doubt Barry will now demand another $50 billion in battery purchase subsidies...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

14 posted on 09/13/2010 2:53:49 PM PDT by The Comedian
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The dope does not even know what $33,000 is. Soon the government will own a warehouse full of batteries that nobody wants, and a special permit from the EPA to scrap them all in order to manufacture more. His speechwriters think this is a good thing. Cripes.


15 posted on 09/13/2010 2:56:22 PM PDT by Seven plus One
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Just wait until all apartments and new houses are required to be built/retrofitted with charging stations. By the time that happens older plug in cars will need several adapters or new technology will make the stations unnecessary.
16 posted on 09/13/2010 2:56:38 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: curth
I didn't know Obama was pre_ent in 2001...

History

Founded in 2001, A123Systems’ proprietary Nanophosphate™ technology is built on a new nanoscale materials initially developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A123Systems is now one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-power lithium ion batteries designed to deliver a new combination of power, safety and life.

17 posted on 09/13/2010 3:00:15 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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Can’t wait to see the energy balance analysis on these batteries and cars.


18 posted on 09/13/2010 3:01:41 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: curth

Well, I suppose it makes bikes all the more attractive and that must be what he wants. When I was in Africa almost everyone was on a bike. And the Dr I had to see had a completely empty office, except for his bare desk, and a single copy of an old British medical reference book that he had to spend a lot of time thumbing through. And their “pharmacy” had a dirt floor and they gave me pills in a brown paper bag.

Yeah, this must be what zero wants to us...so the world will like us more and he’ll take credit for that.


19 posted on 09/13/2010 3:17:46 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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$33k ... although stimulus money could bring that down to $10,000 by the end of 2015.

What the aich-eee-double-hockey-sticks does that mean??? That we'll spot the plant working capital until economies of scale drop the cost or that we'll subsidize $22k of the cost for each battery sold - to foreigners, no less!

Damn, each battery sold could represent one job lost elsewhere in the economy considering opportunity costs.

20 posted on 09/13/2010 3:18:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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