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But Republicans have argued that the Volt was being pushed by the Obama administration for political reasons instead of consumer demand.

“Is the commitment to the American public or is the commitment to clean energy, that we are going to get there any way we can?” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) asked in a hearing in the House in January about the Volt's reported battery fires.

“When the market is ready … it won’t have to be subsidized,” Kelly said.

1 posted on 03/02/2012 2:06:26 PM PST by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Market forces aren’t allowed to exist in Obama and the Democrats’ world.

This is why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were driven off a cliff.


2 posted on 03/02/2012 2:08:42 PM PST by relictele (We are officially OUT of other people's money!)
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It's Dead. It's GM’s version of the Ford Edsel and nobody wants that dog.
3 posted on 03/02/2012 2:10:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Islander7

Announced on a Friday afternoon to minimize the news coverage.


4 posted on 03/02/2012 2:11:31 PM PST by Brookhaven (Mitt Romney will right-size the economy--just like he did your job when he bought your company)
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Obama said he’d buy one when he was out of office. Maybe he should resign and buy a Volt. Then he can claim he helped increase sales and create thousands of new jobs.


5 posted on 03/02/2012 2:11:44 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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That spin is a classic!


6 posted on 03/02/2012 2:12:42 PM PST by TomGuy
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GOVERNMENT DEMAND=”market demand”


8 posted on 03/02/2012 2:13:19 PM PST by steve86 (I have Schizoid Personality Disorder and am exercising the privileges thereof.)
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I didn’t realize there was a market demand.


9 posted on 03/02/2012 2:13:19 PM PST by pallis
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Went to the automotive news web site. 6,300 Volts in inventory and Jan sales were 603.

GM management strikes again.

10 posted on 03/02/2012 2:13:57 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123 and Bahbah.)
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And there you have it folks!...The Volt becomes an instant classic and flop all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer! FUBO!


11 posted on 03/02/2012 2:15:45 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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If GM had any brains they would rename the Volt. A better name: The Zero. It is such a fitting name - on so many levels.


12 posted on 03/02/2012 2:17:40 PM PST by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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Hey TruthGuy. I remember you calling me a whole bunch of names when I said there was no way the Volt would sell at the price they were selling it for. Well what say you now that they are closing down the production line?
13 posted on 03/02/2012 2:17:40 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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“We see positive trends, but we needed to make this market adjustment,” he said....

“We see parked Volts, but we needed to make this market adjustment”......fixed it.


15 posted on 03/02/2012 2:20:21 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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And this is the company that supposedly had a record setting profit year?!

LOL. As Bill Cosby used to say in his stand-up comedy routines...RRRRRiiiiggghhht.


16 posted on 03/02/2012 2:21:29 PM PST by princeofdarkness (The Obama Administration is circling the wagons. But the Truth Indians are using flaming arrows.)
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Obama is blaming the media on this failure of his.


17 posted on 03/02/2012 2:22:20 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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I lost all respect for Motor Trend Magazine when it, pandering to the Zerobama administration, named Chevy Volt “Car of the Year for 2011”. What a joke.

BTW, Chevy is running lots of ads for the Volt, and I gag and change channels when these ads come on.


19 posted on 03/02/2012 2:26:04 PM PST by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand,"

Market demand? what market demand?!!

20 posted on 03/02/2012 2:26:25 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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So the union Dolts got quite a Jolt from the crappy Volts.


24 posted on 03/02/2012 2:28:52 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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“This is the car America had to build.”

So sayeth Chairman Obama.


27 posted on 03/02/2012 2:30:56 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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Good—maybe they will stop showing that crappy assembly line commercial.


28 posted on 03/02/2012 2:31:25 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
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Let's see now ...

The key to maintaining proper ?? inventory AND to continue ?? to meet market demands is to lay off ... the whole friggin' plant ...

Is THAT about it ?



29 posted on 03/02/2012 2:32:20 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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