Posted on 02/07/2012 2:00:54 PM PST by Zakeet
Before any of you $&%# stupid, racist Freepers laugh at this excellent example of my Libtard Community Organizer business training, I want you to think about how much of your money went into the design, manufacturing, sales, financing, and direct tax subsidies of this pile of junk.
I know everyone wants to make fun of electric cars but doesn’t everything have problems when they first start. I don’t remember the first airplane being able to go as far as they do today. The first car you had to use a hand crank and probably had to stop every 100 feet. They definitely weren’t able to travel for miles and miles like today. I am not sure I understand why FREEPERS are making fun of automobiles that may one day be a great thing. I bet the first computer was this big hunky thing that was only able to be turned on for five minutes and could not be held in your hand.
I know everyone wants to make fun of electric cars but doesn’t everything have problems when they first start. I don’t remember the first airplane being able to go as far as they do today. The first car you had to use a hand crank and probably had to stop every 100 feet. They definitely weren’t able to travel for miles and miles like today. I am not sure I understand why FREEPERS are making fun of automobiles that may one day be a great thing. I bet the first computer was this big hunky thing that was only able to be turned on for five minutes and could not be held in your hand.
Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................
Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................
lol. Holy cow. I knew they were around a while but not that long. lol.
Do you realize they have been trying to build an electric car since the early 1900s and have always failed because the batteries cannot store energy as well as say... hydrocarbons?
uh because our gov’t is spending our grandkids money on this stuff. Let the private economy handle the invention of an electric car.
BTW: electric cars aren’t even really “green”. They run off of coal and nuclear fuel. So even if they do work the enviro-wackos will still say this is worse than gas powered cars.
Your taxes were used to build the car,that nobody wants..Let the free market invent a electric car..
Everything else you cite airplanes,computers all invented by private enterprises...
I don't recall the Federal Govt' subsidizing the Wright Brothers and then turning around and giving massive tax credits to get people to buy one five minutes after the first Kitty Hawk flight. I also don't recall the Federal Govt' going around encouraging people with cash handouts to crush their older buck boards in order to artificially create demand for the plane either.
Any Ford pickup can probably push 5 or 6 of the little things out of the way at a time -- more with an F-250 or 350 -- so it shouldn't be a problem for real Americans.
This is MASSIVE mother of all government failure. Obviously, we need a $Trillion$ new government program to replace or retrofit all US tunnels so that they have car outlets every 1/2 mile. What were they thinking? That a Volt owner would have to stop every 100' in the tunnel, unscrew the nearest squigly, and plug in?
Volts for dolts! Volts for dolts!
You kinda remind me of the Buddhist Monk who self immolated with your posts. :-)
Just kiddin’
“Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................”
Agreed.
Additionally, the Volt is a variation on existing technology. Locomotives are diesel-electric. That is they use diesel motors to drive electric motors on the wheel. The Volt uses a gas engine to do the same job, when the charge runs down.
As for your examples of innovation, they were improvements over existing technology, even if they weren’t very good. The first airplane didn’t go very far, but there was no other form of powered flight. The first computers filled a good sized room, but they did the job that hundreds of people with pencil and paper did, and quicker, (and they could stay on for more than 5 minutes). As for early automobiles, actually, they were pretty good. Not as fast and safe as today’s cars, but not bad. The Volt is touted as an improvement, superior technology to conventional gasoline powered cars.
I would say that the Hyundai Elantra gets better mileage, and has a smaller carbon footprint, while saving the consumer 10s of thousands in upfront costs versus the Volt.
What makes you think that electric cars are a new idea?
It’s not the electric car, per se, that they are making fun of. It’s the government mandate trying to force consumers to buy a technology that isn’t ready to compete.
There is also enough fossil fuel on the earth, especially when you include methyl hydrates, to power the world for hundreds of years yet.
There may come the day when fossil fuel alternatives and electric cars are able to supplant oil and gas and coal.
It’s just not there yet and won’t be for at least 60 or 70 years.
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