Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers

Fox News ^ | October 08, 2012 | Perry Chiaramonte

[Snuph]

President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence "manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,” but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/08/lg-plant-that-got-150m-to-make-volt-batteries-in-michigan-puts-workers-on/#ixzz28l2MseL9

[Snuph]

Not a single battery produced. Zero just repaying friends favors.

[PJBankard]

Another Green Energy disaster.

[cripplecreek]

And they have the audacity to push this 25x25 amendment on us. (proposal 3)

[cripplecreek]

They got $150 million from the feds and $100 million from the state.

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17567

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[annieokie]

"""a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds""""".....

So, this is where he got the "You Didn't Build That" statement from, and projecting it onto every other business.

He is slicker than Slick Willie.

[cripplecreek]

Fom the link in post number 4.

GM has sold 13,497 Chevy Volt s through August this year, or about .001 percent of the total 9.7 million cars and light trucks sold in the first nine months of 2012, according to Autodata Corp. GM sold 2,831 Volts in August of 2012, up from 302 sold in August of 2011.

[hadaclueonce]

VOLT+OBAMA=VEGA

[Windflier]

Obama’s just throwing good ammo at the Romney campaign. If I weren’t seeing this with my own eyes, I’d swear it was fiction.

[gotribe]

furlough = fired

[cripplecreek]

Awarded indefinite self funded vacations.

[exit82]

cc—I wonder how many of those Volts were purchased by the US Government?

Does the Government mail itself the $ 7500.00 rebate for each vehicle it purchases?

[cripplecreek]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one and I’m right here in Michigan.

[Snuph]

Most the sold Volts were sold to the US government

[fuzzthatwuz]

I wonder how Obama will spin these “furloughs” on the next jobs report. Probably keep them on the rolls as his administration has done so many times in their continous attempt to delude the voters.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I am thinking about leasing one, assuming the option to purchase is at a decent price.

Where else are you going to get a $70K new car for $30K.

I already have time-of-day billing and pay $0.055 per KWH at night, so this would be a very cheap car to run.

Hey, it may be a collectors’ car, like the Edsel!!!

[Snuph]

Good luck with it. I hope you only drive 40 miles a day. The collectors spin might actually work some day however.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I saw one about a week or so ago on the interstate doing the double nickel for speed. I don’t think it’ll go any faster. I passed that Chevy Dolt like it was standing still. And laughing, too!

[DaveTesla]

Who knew the color of $hit was green????

[digger48]

maybe someone will put a flux capacitor on one and take us back to 2008 and stop this crap.

We’ve had about enough of Biff Hussein Obama and his alternate reality