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If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

Posted on 10/22/2012 7:18:31 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill

I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH, so the Volt will cost me less than $200 per year to charge. I also rarely drive more than 20 miles per day.

I will lease/but one if they are giving them away, and the thought of owning a limited run car is attractive.

But, If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: anoldafvet
If Obama stays in power, you will look back on $.1310 per KWH as “The Good Old Days”.

you are quite right, and no one should be surprised. After all, one 0's campaign promises was that in his administration electricity costs would necessarily skyrocket.

i think that McCain could have won if he'd used 0's own words in the campaign (and not go AWOL when the banks imploded.). But he was mostly concerned about being nice to the Negro.

Not that we would have been much better off under McCain. It's arguable we'd be in een worse shape.

41 posted on 10/22/2012 8:20:57 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Fresh Wind

At least it was parked in their driveway. It torched the van that was next to it though.


42 posted on 10/22/2012 8:22:05 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: jtal

sorry about the double post double post.

The hazards of posting from a phone.


43 posted on 10/22/2012 8:25:15 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

Well I hope he also rolls back the absurd CAFE standards 0 decreed.

If not, I predict a boutique industry in refurbishing old cars not subject to new car CAFE requirements.


44 posted on 10/22/2012 8:28:03 AM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

They’re going to rename it the Dolt in honor of Obama’s one and only term.


45 posted on 10/22/2012 8:34:18 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

... they may pull the plug!


46 posted on 10/22/2012 8:39:28 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Sorry, gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international. Gone.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

The Volt was DOA!

Obama stole your tax dollars to keep it alive.

The Volt can’t survive in the free market, because there is no demand at the price of it’s actual cost.

Obama HATES “free markets”!


47 posted on 10/22/2012 8:46:44 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?

The marketplace is going to do it. the volt is a waste of Taxpayers money!!

it will be a collectable car like the YUGO is!!

48 posted on 10/22/2012 8:52:32 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

GM just doubled down by announcing they will make a Cadillac version of the volt
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/16/autos/cadillac-elr-volt/index.htmlChead


49 posted on 10/22/2012 8:54:48 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ->The Jayson Blair administration)
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To: moovova
"For all in tents and porpoises."

Well, that makes more sense than the original.

50 posted on 10/22/2012 9:08:45 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: woodbutcher1963

“Of course having said they are a bad investment, lets pretend and flash forward to the Barrett Jackson auction in 2052. I still would find it hard to believe that the 2012 Volt would be going for $100k.”

The big question for me as to whether the Volt would be collectable then is would you be able to obtain replacement batteries for it?


51 posted on 10/22/2012 9:15:25 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: stylin19a
Cadillac version of the volt

I'll buy a LINCOLN then a Caddy. Caddy used to be good cars, but I'll never buy a GM product (or a USFIAT - FKA Chrysler) again!!

52 posted on 10/22/2012 9:47:45 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: SumProVita
For all intensive purposes....it’s already dead.

For all *practical* purposes, it was still-born to begin with...

the infowarrior

53 posted on 10/22/2012 11:03:02 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: McGruff
Lol! I was a car buff during the "Edsel era", yet it wasn't until I saw your photo that I suddenly realized where I had seen the Edsel grille profile before:

1934 Ford...

54 posted on 10/22/2012 12:15:22 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: McGruff
LOL! I was a car buff during the "Edsel era", yet it wasn't until I saw your photo that I suddenly realized where I had seen the Edsel grille profile before:

1934 Ford...

55 posted on 10/22/2012 12:17:15 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: TXnMA
Good grief! Here it is, a good half-day until the next debate -- and FR is already bogging down and doing the "double-post bit" -- IF you can even get a response.

With this level of server performance, forget even logging in to FR on election day... :-(

56 posted on 10/22/2012 12:26:26 PM PDT by TXnMA (EPITAPH: (if FR dies) "Committed suicide over 'principles'"...)
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