Nationalizing the bulk of America’s auto industry was the SINGLE MOST TOXIC and WASTEFUL thing that that ass-clown Obama has done in office. Except for all the other toxic and waster things, LOL
GM Motors is now the biggest welfare scheme in history. And the Volt is going to be a disaster
Dionne is a demented know-nothing cheerleader.
“Well, ther’ ain’t no sense in it. A body might stump his toe, and take pison, and fall down the well, and break his neck, and bust his brains out, and somebody come along and ask what killed him, and some numskull up and say, ‘Why, he stumped his toe.’ Would ther’ be any sense in that? No. And ther’ ain’t no sense in this, nuther.” -
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
EJ Dionne seems to be using the same tortured definition of ‘success’ as Twain’s characters do in identifying a cause of death. If you ignore all that has gone before and doggedly portray the outcome as a thriving industry when it is anything but then logic has completely gone out the window.
Volt is a diseaster. Problem with politicians and techies is they tend to forget something call logistics. There is not enough lithium mines to provide the lithium for lithium ion battery factories to produce enough lithium ion rechargeable batteries to support more than 40,000 vehicles a year. Don’t even try to think 1 million vehicles. So how are we going to mass produce these vehicles to bring the unit price down??!!! Most of these lithium mines are owned by China or some unstable third world country in South America and Africa. We are back to square one where a key component to making our cars run is dependent on another overseas nation for fuel.