This car, which you can buy for a mere $100,000, was brough to your by a half billion dollar loan from the US Department of Energy, made in Finland using batteries and electric motors made in China. Posted on 10/20/2011 5:26:15 PM PDT by moneyrunner
This car, which you can buy for a mere $100,000, was brough to your by a half billion dollar loan from the US Department of Energy, made in Finland using batteries and electric motors made in China.
But I'll let Andrew explain it:
Our tax dollars at work… a half-billion dollar loan (actually $529 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a hybrid toy for the wealthy and/or celebri-licious (like Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the first customers) that, in real world driving, won’t get much better mileage than your average crossover utility vehicle. Not only that, but the cars are manufactured in Finland — that’s right, Finland – and shipped here for sale, where their purchasers will then receive a $7,500 tax credit for buying one (the “cheap” base model starts at $96,895, with the full-zoot Eco Chic model going for a bargain $108,900).
What is the Department of Wasting Tax Payer Dollars Energy's excuse for this over-the-top extravagance? It runs partly on batteries, getting you 32 miles away from your garage before the turbocharged engine kicks in, delivering 20 miles to the gallon!
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
On Drudge now…
‘ABCNEWS to break another SOLYDRA-like story, sources tell DRUDGE… Developing…’
At the rate this regime is squandering money, there will be many, many more.
Esp. if Lenny the green booger zombie bought one , I don't want one.
Ping.
When the hell is somebody going to do something about the most corrupt administration our country has ever seen?
Is there not one single representative in the GOP that still has a pair of balls?
It get 19 miles to the gallon what a joke
Will it be the first car to cross the Finnish line?
Just proves the elite are laughing at us.
Who they hell is gonna buy one of these cars after...in the name of fairness, they steal the money from the rich cats and everybody is equally and fairly poor and miserable?
Thanks moneyrunner. And, now everyone should know what “stimulus” means.
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