GM temporarily halts production of Volt (1300 Union Dolts laid off)

The Hill ^ | March 2, 2012 | By Keith Laing

[Islander7]

GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees.

A GM spokesman told The Hill on Friday that production of the Volt would resume April 23.

"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand," GM spokesman Chris Lee said in a telephone interview.

[TXnMA]

"We need to remember that the entire print media, from newspapers to car magazines, has been infiltrated by 30 IQ, drooling left-wing ideologues, and they’re publishing the worst tripe and unreadable garbage in the history of American print media."

Yep, precisely why I dropped my two remaining subscriptions (Scientific American and National Geographic) several years back.

Those subscriptions were uninterrupted all the way back to 1965, when I got out of the Air Force. But when leftist crap causes you to do more cursing than reading -- it is time to pull the plug...

[Seaplaner]

"This isn’t just the car we wanted to build,” a narrator says in the commercial over footage of Volts being manufactured in Hamtramck, Mich. “This is the car America had to build.”

Somehow, one can just tell when a lie is premeditated by a committee.

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[Haiku Guy]

“Unsafe Parked In Your Driveway”

[okie01]

These high gas prices are going to really hurt GM, and I am almost sure that unless Newt can get in an implement his energy plan, within two or three years we are going to be faced with another GM failure. Why do I say this? Because, yes, they may sell more smaller vehicles, BUT, they are at risk of selling LESS SUVs and trucks, which is where their profit is generated.

If it isn't one thing, it will be another. Because of the government's intervention, GM went through its bankruptcy without having to address the problem that caused the bankruptcy in the first place -- union contracts and pension plans.

That's what ran them into the ditch in the first place. And that problem remains.

They'll go bust again. It's inevitable.