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Heartache: GM Halts Production of Chevy Volt, Lays Off 1,300 Workers…
weasel zippers ^ | 3/2/12 | zip

Posted on 03/02/2012 1:04:42 PM PST by Nachum

And in the same week Obama vows buy one, Christmas comes early this year.

(DFP) — General Motors has told 1,300 employees at its Detroit Hamtramck that they will be temporarily laid off for five weeks as the company halts production of the Chevrolet Volt and its European counterpart, the Opel Ampera.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chevy; gm; schadenfreude; volt; workers
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To: Nachum

Prediction:

Obama will forbid production of the Dolt to be halted, and force his (his! HA!) government agencies to buy them by the trainload.


21 posted on 03/02/2012 1:16:37 PM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: max americana

Men in North Korea are required to go to work at shutdown factories, they stamp a card showing they attended work and are then sent out to find a way to earn money to give to the factory.

Some job, scrounging out money from a dirt poor prison camp like NK which you then owe to the state-owned factory.

Even factories that aren’t shuttered only have electricity for 2 or 3 hours a day.


22 posted on 03/02/2012 1:16:43 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Nachum
And in the same week Obama vows buy one, Christmas comes early this year.

Discontinued in 2013. He'll still be able to get one after he leaves office.

23 posted on 03/02/2012 1:17:17 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Revolting cat!

There are just so many left wing college professors who might drop 50 grand for it.


24 posted on 03/02/2012 1:18:18 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Nachum

I guess the peasants aren’t buying the baloney they’re peddling.


25 posted on 03/02/2012 1:19:16 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Not Romney - Not ever!)
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To: GeronL

“they stamp a card showing they attended work and are then sent out to find a way to earn money to give to the factory.”

Sounds like unemployment insurance in America..


26 posted on 03/02/2012 1:20:32 PM PST by max americana (Buttcrack Obama is an idiot)
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To: Nachum

"Dang!"


27 posted on 03/02/2012 1:21:37 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

“5 BILLION in R & D.....5 BILLION more to market & produce.....a $50,000 (out the door)car that you would have to own for 20 years to recoup any savings(after you spend 12000.00 more for 2 new batteries......and they paid all of the GM workers big bonuses.....and GM still owes the taxpayers 23 BILLION dollars!!”

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Excellent thumbnail economic encapsulation of this particular, anti-Market, Communist disaster.


28 posted on 03/02/2012 1:24:04 PM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Nachum

Seriously ... I wonder why the $40,000+ golf carts wouldn't sell ...

29 posted on 03/02/2012 1:25:51 PM PST by Zakeet (The idiot Obozo is to competent leadership as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art)
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To: Nachum

Will Obama have to buy a used one?


30 posted on 03/02/2012 1:26:02 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Revolting cat!
“I heard they’ve sold just 120 Volts in the US and 230 Amperas in Europe!”

Not sure if that is sarcasm or not, but if not you heard wrong, it just seems like it's only 120. It's more like 10,000 give or take since inception. I'd guess 30% are still on Dealer lots one way or another. (unsold / Demos)

31 posted on 03/02/2012 1:26:02 PM PST by DAC21
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To: wolfpat

Try a skate board an electric motor and a long extension cord. LOL


32 posted on 03/02/2012 1:26:21 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Nachum

Was there a story yesterday, that, the Volt sales had doubled? The owners will not be pleased. They are going to need a DumBO pep rally.


33 posted on 03/02/2012 1:27:08 PM PST by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: max americana

I guess communism means that we have to pay the boss instead of the other way around.


34 posted on 03/02/2012 1:28:44 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Nachum

Why don't they just make one that runs directly on pond scum?


35 posted on 03/02/2012 1:28:52 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: wolfpat

Thats ok. if obamalamadingdong gets reelected, it may BE your home......(sarcasm)


36 posted on 03/02/2012 1:30:03 PM PST by TexConfederate1861 (Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy.)
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To: Nachum
the Chevrolet Volt and its European counterpart, the Opel Ampera.

Do they have the Buick Ohm for the Asian market?

37 posted on 03/02/2012 1:30:23 PM PST by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: bunkerhill7

If a Volt crashed into an Amp...Watt would be the result?


38 posted on 03/02/2012 1:30:35 PM PST by spokeshave (Dole/McCain/Romney losers all....NEWT is da Man)
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To: Nachum

Friday news dump?


39 posted on 03/02/2012 1:31:25 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Nachum
...Chevrolet Volt and its European counterpart, the Opel Ampera.

Volt = unit of electomovite force

Ampera (Ampere) = unit of electrical current

OK, so who is ging to make use of the unit of electrical resistence, the Ohm? Ohmsmobile?

40 posted on 03/02/2012 1:31:57 PM PST by CPOSharky (The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everything.)
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