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Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^
| Dec. 21, 2011
| Tom Gantert
Posted on 12/21/2011 1:02:05 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
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New money saving plan: Give each Volt buyer a new Corvette.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:04:45 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
....and they come with a Obama 2012 sticker already on the bumper.............
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:06:26 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Probably costing us Michigan residents a few bucks on top of that.
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:06:44 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Federal subsidies—The gift that keeps on taking(from the taxpayers)!
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:10:39 PM PST
by
mtrott
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
They’d might as well go whole hog, and subsidize them completely. Then they could drop Chevy Volts out of helicopters, the same way that Ben Bernanke drops paper money.
A Volt in every driveway! Merry Fitna!
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:16:59 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Since it works for health care, the government needs to mandate that everyone must buy a volt or they will be fined.
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:19:07 PM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Does the 250K that the taxpayers put into the VOLT includes the money that the TAXPAYERS lost when 0 nationalized GM?
If Ford came uot with either a electric Mustang that would perform like a Mustang and/or an electric F350 that could Haul more then a peice of cardboard, I would look into it. Ford is the company I would buy my next vechile from.
I just saw (for the first time) a smart car...my golf cart could survive better in a crash then that!!
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:20:54 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: mjp
cures homelessness,too.
own or home or face a fine!
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:30:00 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Why even have a price for these things? With that much subsidization, why not make them free?
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:33:20 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Has anyone seen one of these on the road? I haven’t.
To: ExCTCitizen
I just saw (for the first time) a smart car...my golf cart could survive better in a crash then that!!
It's actually worse than you may think.
Most cars have pretty significant crumple zones that absorb a lot of the impact and (comparatively) slow the rate of deceleration, but the passenger compartment is a safety cage designed to not crumple.
The smart hasn't the luxury of crumple zones - it's just a safety cage on wheels.
While it's true that the cage may resist deforming, it still has to decelerate. When it decelerates, so do the people inside.
So the Smart car may survive a high-speed collision, but the fragile human bodies inside will be pulpified.
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:36:13 PM PST
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: ExCTCitizen
If Ford came out with either a electric Mustang that would perform like a Mustang and/or an electric F350 that could Haul more then a piece of cardboard, I would look into it. Ford is the company I would buy my next vehicle from. I'm with you. My next car will not come until after Obama is out, since I do not want my spending to support his regime, but when I buy it will be Ford or foreign. I am boycotting GM and Chrysler forever because of the massive corruption of the bankruptcy and Bailout. And, yes, I like your taste in hypothetical Ford electric cars.
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:36:35 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: chrisser
pulpified?
like this?
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:39:38 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:41:23 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Pollster1
I'm with you. My next car will not come until after Obama is out, since I do not want my spending to support his regime, but when I buy it will be Ford or foreign. I am boycotting GM and Chrysler forever because of the massive corruption of the bankruptcy and Bailout. And, yes, I like your taste in hypothetical Ford electric cars.
I would love to buy 2 things: a Panoz (the 4th largest American car company) or a Avanti (if they are still in business). I would buy a foreign car that is made in the USA, but I won't buy a VW (UAW talking to VW about unionizing the TN plant).
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:49:04 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I’ll gladly sign a pledge to NOT buy a Volt in return for half the subsidy amount...
To: Mr. K
That brings back some memories...
Love the old SNL episodes.
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:56:44 PM PST
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Typical volt buyer:
1. $170,000 per year
2. Government employee
3. Union member
4. Obama voter
5. Drooling liberal buffoon
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posted on
12/21/2011 1:58:17 PM PST
by
Newtoidaho
(Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
"While much less than the hundreds of billions of dollars that Japanese and Korean auto and battery manufacturers have received over the years, the investments provided by several different Administrations and Congresses to jump-start the country's fledgling battery technology and domestic electric vehicle industries (not just specifically for the Volt as Ford's offering will also use LG Chem batteries and Fisker will use the A123 system for example) matches the same foresight and innovation leadership that other countries are exhibiting and which America has historically taken pride in."
As my mother might have said, "If all the other countries jump in the lake, do we have to, too?"
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posted on
12/21/2011 2:10:40 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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