Still, ultimately, GM will have to improve upon the cost-effectiveness of the Volt and I think they will, or at least they will try. Likewise, I think that people that buy the Volt because they are committed to reducing their own personal independence shouldn’t be considered either traitors or communists.

However, what would you suggest?

Would you be open to a tax credit for any vehicle that achieves 60 mpg, or instance? A gas tax?

Ultimately, don’t we have to do something different in terms of energy policy?

Japanese cars are more American than are GM or Chrysler cars which should be properly classified today as “Soviet” cars since they celebrate usurpation of freedom by government fiat (no pun intended).

On the other hand Japanese cars celebrate US capitalism rather than Obama communism.

I am patriotic only to the founder’s idea of a free America, not to our soil.

If American soil can now only produce collectivist tyranny like GM and Chrysler then call me Japanese and proud of it.

Tora Tora Tora on GM

Government Motor’s ‘Volt’ is the US answer to old East Germany’s ‘Trabant’ or Yugoslavia’s ‘Yugo’. All three will soon vie in a contest for the world’s worst car.

In short the volt is pure crap but the car will be a “success” because Obama will order US taxpayers to pay for it one way or another anyway.

This is how communism works and anyone who buys a car from this communist manufacturer would be tried for treason in a country that still had a lick of sense.

GM is selling the Volt for $41,000. The feds are picking up $7500 of the cost of the Volt.

Likewise, sudden acceleration has been reported in every make of vehicle.

I think you could use a few history lessons, minimally.

Answers: bahahahahaahhahahhaha

Question to GM: “What WERE you thinking”?

the whole deal is inexplicable…. what exactly is GM doing?

‘as plug-in tax credits expire, prius sales will skyrocket and volt sales will lag far, far behind.’

your point is interesting because when the Volt was still just a concept, GM did believe temporarily that they could keep the price closer to that of the prius. that’s how poorly thought out was the concept when debuted.

still, that isn’t really surprising. bob lutz, the original driving force behind the Volt, conceived of the Volt as a marketing response to the success of the prius and the negative image of GM regarding technology, fuel efficiency, etc. even more interesting, until he left GM, he still claimed that the volt would never resonate with more than just the 5 percent of society willing to pay extra to be green as he called it.

lots of mistakes made here, most notably, not developing a legitimate prius fighter in the interim. if gas prices increase a dollar or so in the next couple of years, as plug-in tax credits expire, prius sales will skyrocket and volt sales will lag far, far behind.