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GM Dealers Say No To More Chevy Volts
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| January 23, 2012
| Ray Wert
Posted on 01/23/2012 9:40:26 AM PST by jazusamo
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:40:32 AM PST
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jazusamo
To: All
Everyone should be contacting their representatives in congress to support Rep. Mike Kellys bill to kill the $7,500 tax credit.
This tax credit is for all EVs that qualify and includes the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:42:10 AM PST
by
jazusamo
(If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Moving on to Volgas or Trabants?
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:42:30 AM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Preparation ZOT, for prompt relief from annoying romnoids.)
To: jazusamo
I’d buy a Chevy Volt if I could be assured they’d ship Obama’s ass back to his Kenyan homeland permanently.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:43:40 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Gaffer
I’d make the sacrifice with you. LOL!
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:46:23 AM PST
by
jazusamo
(If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:47:19 AM PST
by
jazusamo
(If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
To: Gaffer
I’d buy a Chevy Dolt if I was mentally deranged and incompetent.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:47:29 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: jazusamo
Now we're hearing reports of dealers who don't want to buy the cars from GM because customers just aren't materializing for the Volt.
Expect to hear that these dealers are being audited by the IRS and that OSHA is shutting down their service areas for "violations". The Regime will not stand for this.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:48:54 AM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Gaffer
The Chevy VoltBrought to you by the Kenyan Dolt.
To: jazusamo
Government Motor’s shows again how Obama fails at everything he touches. Now the Dealerships will be in revolt, over the Obama Volt.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:50:34 AM PST
by
OPS4
(Ops4 God Bless America!Jesus is Lord)
To: jazusamo
Electric cars are a tyrants dream !
At the first sign of revolt, SWITCH, and nobody goes anywhere.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:51:10 AM PST
by
SENTINEL
(Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
To: jazusamo
I always said what would kill the Volt was the economics not the technology. You just couldn't make back the purchase cost with fuel savings. You were always better off buying a gas burner and using the saved money to buy gas. The only appeal of the Volt was snob appeal for the green crowd, and it was neither overtly green, like the Smart Car, or luxurious like the Tesla. It was just another sedan, but one with a 41K price tag.
GM would have been better off coming up with a 40mpg gas burner that could be sold a competitive costs than with a 100mpg hybrid that is priced over what the market will pay.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:51:10 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
Well said, you’re dead on the money.
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:54:44 AM PST
by
jazusamo
(If you don't like growing older, don't worry. You may not be growing older much longer: T. Sowell)
To: jazusamo
What dealership would want a lot full of cars they can’t sell? The Dolt is a waste of our money.It will be hard seeing one and not have the urge to run it off the road since I did pay for it.
To: jazusamo
If GM is so sure there will be demand for the Volt, why don’t they give the car to the dealers on consignment?
Oh, I see...that would require the free market decide the fate of the electric car - can’t have that now can we?!
To: PBRSTREETGANG
30 mile range ?
That’s a laff.
To: MichaelCorleone
There was a time when dealerships HAD to sell a quota of unpopular crap cars (like the Volt) in order to get the supply of popular cars and trucks that people actually wanted to buy.
And if that poor dealer didn’t move enough of the crap cars - they got squeezed out by bigger dealers who could absorb the losses by having too much junk in their inventory.
I imagine things are pretty much the same in that industry.
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posted on
01/23/2012 10:04:21 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yes, I was right. If these dealers don't sell more Volts - they will be
punished.
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posted on
01/23/2012 10:16:58 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: GonzoGOP
I agree with you. A few weeks ago, I ran some rough numbers comparing volt to Chevy Cruze (same platform) In rough numbers, the payback would begin somewhere around 150,000 miles (not including the cost of new batteries)
There is simply no way to economically justify a Volt.
Reminds me of a girl I used to work with. She told me she was going to lease a new Jeep Cherokee. I asked where she lived and it was 25 miles away. I grabbed a calculator and told her that if she never planed on going anywere witht he car and I do mean anywhere, she would just make it on allowable miles. On a 12,000 miles lease, her miles to work were 12,000 per year.
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posted on
01/23/2012 10:18:58 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
To: jazusamo
It’s never going to occur to these Einsteins that the problem is the Volts just cost too damned much money for the car you get. You could subsidize the price to almost $0 and you still won’t get many takers.
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posted on
01/23/2012 10:22:08 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
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