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A $7,500 electric car discount scares dealers (Cash for Clunkers Part II)
CNN Money ^
| February 4, 2011
| Peter Valdes-Dapena
Posted on 02/05/2011 3:22:45 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: SVTCobra03
:) Yup! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:10:09 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
To: Zakeet
Well, Hell, why not just give them away for free!
It's for the children, after all.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:24:30 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: Zakeet
In an effort to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 sell the Volt, so GM won't be forced to cease production due to sluggish sales, the Obama administration has proposed a plan that would put up to $7,500 directly in the hands of car buyers without having them jump through any tax hoops. There, fixed it.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:33:37 PM PST
by
hattend
(Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
To: musicman
“A shoehorn and a s&^tload of Vaseline!!”
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:40:27 PM PST
by
Fedupwithit
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" -Albert Camus)
To: Fedupwithit
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:46:11 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Gen.Blather
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:05:05 PM PST
by
Cobra64
To: Zakeet
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:06:24 PM PST
by
Cobra64
To: Zakeet
I do not believe that electric cars are not energy savers in the long run. In a few years the batteries have to be replaced. Also as the battery ages then it will start to not hold a charge as well. The energy will go into charging it, but that energy will also be lost just as the car sits idle. It is kind of like having an open gas tank where the gas is just evaporating. Energy from a battery also “Evaporates”. As the battery gets older than this is much more serious.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:17:32 PM PST
by
Revel
To: vidbizz
Wait until all those batteries in them battery operated cars get cold & dont start up. Brought to you by "the party of unintended consequences."
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:35:54 PM PST
by
Cobra64
To: Revel
Wait until electric car owners have to pay a huge battery disposal fee for those 600 pound batteries.
I'm still waiting for the electric current supply and infrastructure dam to break.
California was having brown-outs before these silly things came along.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:41:35 PM PST
by
Cobra64
To: Cobra64
Don’t forget that huge resale value after five years have been placed upon that $8,000 battery bank. Phhhttt!
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:47:06 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: eyedigress
Don’t worry. Emperor nobama will order you to buy one of these SEC’s (Sh**y Electric Car) and you WILL obey!
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posted on
02/05/2011 6:33:00 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
To: paul51
Exactly right. In addition, the electricity grid is nowhere near optimized to charge up all these EVs; the use-cases are horrendous (short range, take forever to charge); range in very cold or very hot weather is seriously degraded if you want to heat or cool the cabin; and the rare earths you need for batteries and motors come from China.
The liquid hydrocarbon fuel system is hard to beat. It is highly optimized, high energy storage density, fast refueling, reasonably efficient, long range, very low emissions, high performance, and cheap to make.
I’ve never understood the liberal urge to dump what works in favor of the silly new things that are unproven, high cost, and of questionable environmental benefit. That goes for ethanol, wind, and solar as well.
To: hal ogen
Emperor Obama is going down in flames. The MSM is his prop. They are going with him.
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posted on
02/05/2011 6:45:42 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: hal ogen
One other note, I magically get Newsweak. I have not subscribed to a magazine in 20 years. Desperation as far as I’m concerned.
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posted on
02/05/2011 6:49:30 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: CFIIIMEIATP737; Neidermeyer
To: eyedigress
Maybe your finger twitched while websurfing a while ago and you accidentally bought the magazine.
Not a subscription to the magazine, the magazine.
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posted on
02/05/2011 8:58:43 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
To: Erasmus
Whatever it is my money didn’t do it.
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posted on
02/05/2011 9:01:45 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Erasmus
I buy things that go in magazines, but I have no need for new magazines.
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posted on
02/05/2011 9:26:27 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Cobra64
This is more likely...
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