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GM CEO calls for $1 gas tax hike
CNN ^ | June 7 2011 | By Chris Isidore

Posted on 06/07/2011 12:24:15 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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To: HwyChile
who do not need them,

Who decides? You?

You can KMA, government boot-licker. You can have freedom or control. pick ONE.

/johnny

61 posted on 06/07/2011 1:02:33 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: NoLibZone

how much money does GM make around the world from car sales?

isn’t it nice the gas tax is reserved for Americans? /s


62 posted on 06/07/2011 1:02:45 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: NoLibZone

You know what would really help the environment? Shutting down his crap-ass company.

Bought a new car last month....I’ll give Akerson 3 guesses at what brand was so not-in-the-running I didn’t even remember to not consider it.........


63 posted on 06/07/2011 1:03:55 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: NoLibZone

An obvious Obama croney. Do NOT, ever, buy GM vehicles while this fraud is in control. And go to many dealers, and tell them that so long as the Obama monsters are not removed...no deal.


64 posted on 06/07/2011 1:04:24 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: NoLibZone

I currently drive a 2004 gmc truck but it is the LAST gm product I will ever buy. I made this decision after obama bought out the company with my tax dollars.


65 posted on 06/07/2011 1:04:59 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: NoLibZone
Akerson floated the idea of a $1 a gallon increase in the gas tax as a way to encourage buyers to purchase smaller, more fuel efficient cars

$4 which is already tanking the U.S. economy...isn't high enough for this Croney Capitalist. Remember how the Obama enviro team wanted to up gas prices to $7 / gallon?

66 posted on 06/07/2011 1:08:26 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: All
I am in the market for another vehicle.

I am looking for a Jeep CJ2-A.

67 posted on 06/07/2011 1:08:40 PM PDT by troy McClure
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To: Huskrrrr
"Please buy my overpriced Volt....or bad things will happen.”

First thing I thought of.. You're exactly right.

68 posted on 06/07/2011 1:10:30 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: NoLibZone

just another reason to never by a product from this company.


69 posted on 06/07/2011 1:12:42 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: NoLibZone

Nice ploy to get people to buy your stupid Volt. You can improve fail with more fail.


70 posted on 06/07/2011 1:12:42 PM PDT by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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To: NoLibZone; CSM

I drive a 1997 Ford Escort with 250,000 miles on it that gets 30-35mpg. My husband’s 2000 Ford Ranger with 150,000 miles gets about 23mpg. We own them free and clear and have no intentions of taking on a car note — let alone one from goobermint motors.

This turkey is welcome to take a long walk off a short pier, along with his gas tax ideas.


71 posted on 06/07/2011 1:13:56 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: prisoner6

Is that a sporran or an udder?


72 posted on 06/07/2011 1:14:14 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: muleskinner; rintense; Huskrrrr

I’d rather buy a 2012 VW Passat TDI or Jetta TDI that gets, with some modest tuning, 50 MPG!


73 posted on 06/07/2011 1:15:48 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
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To: NoLibZone

Of course this GM idiot is going to tout whatever his government masters tell him to—

When I go to buy a new car, I may take this article to the GM dealership after talking to them about a particular model, pull it out, give it to them and say—”Oh, I forgot. I’ll never buy another one of your turd buckets with four wheels. Have a nice day!”

Screw GM and Akerson.


74 posted on 06/07/2011 1:16:49 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: bill1952

And what does that do to the truckers and the products they transport?

Idiots. I have never owned a GM car and never will.

Garbage.

I predict the UAW will strike GM and Chrysler. In essence striking against themselves.


75 posted on 06/07/2011 1:17:12 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: kcvl
General Motors newest CEO Dan Akerson will receive a $9 million compensation package that includes an annual $1.7 million in cash, $5.3 million in salary stock delivered over three years starting on September 30, 2011, as well as $2 million in restricted stock.

Good. His stock won't be worth s*** soon enough.

76 posted on 06/07/2011 1:17:32 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: NoLibZone
I grew up in a GM family. Oldsmobile's and Buick's for cars, Chevy trucks. Was taught never to even think of buying a Ford.

In April, I bought my first F150. I will never again buy a GM product. My siblings have said the same, as have my cousins.

What is sad is that the dealer in my hometown is a family friend. He started selling cars in the 40’s, and my Grandpa was one of his first customers (they played cards together till they couldn't drive anymore).

Still, I won't support fascists. And GM is fascist.

77 posted on 06/07/2011 1:18:31 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: asinclair

My first car was a 1972 Chevy Nova, 350 V-8. I put 156,000 miles on it before selling it for $100 to a waitress at the restaurant I worked at. By that time it was leaking oil all over the place.
She let her boyfriend borrow it, and he took off for Mexico with the car and was never heard from again. LOL.

My younger brother owned a 1975 Vega that eventually just stopped working. He parked it on a street and the city towed it away after a few weeks.


78 posted on 06/07/2011 1:19:09 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: drypowder

CEO is sounding like James Taggart.


79 posted on 06/07/2011 1:20:43 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: hal ogen

He can’t be fired. He’s now a government worker.


80 posted on 06/07/2011 1:26:22 PM PDT by Graneros (I want to go peacefully like my Dad did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like his passengers.)
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