Audi Chief Calls Chevy Volt “A Car For Idiots”

IF it was a great car people would be buying it.  What makes it worse is that you also get a government rebate if you buy it.  Yet no one is.  Your rant about the great electric car revolution is like most liberal ideas, a failure.  There are so many problems with the car, safety, power, size, affordability, batteries, power range.  Yet all that matters to you is the pursuit of your foolish liberal utopia.  You suffer from RDD. Reality deficit disorder.

I did not mean to insuinate that you condone Chicago thug tactics.  I will categorically state, however, that it is my opinion that Obama operates according to Chicago thug tactics.  Take a look at what he did on this first senate campaign.  Look at who he has surrounded himself with, and how many of those guys are heading to the can.  And there are other who will likely find themselves under investigation very soon.  And, he is hinting that he will go it alone if need be and bypass Congress. 

I made no contradiction. If carbon capture were effective and economic, then new coal plants could do fine under cap-and-trade.  But carbon capture is neither of those, so, under Obama’s cap-and-trade, new coal plants would not make economic sense. This would be known before they’re built. 

Also, you make a cheap insinuation that I would condone Chicago thug tactics … well, let’s say that says more about you than about me.

Hyperbole. Here’s the money quote from the interview:

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

You said that Obama “was going to bankrupt the coal industry.” There’s a big difference between discouraging new coal plants and shutting the old ones down. Coal produces about twice the CO2 per kWh than CH4, but nobody with any influence, and certainly not Obama, is talking about shutting down coal plants without ready alternatives.

And I never said that carbon capture would, ipso facto, make plants economic.

Obama stated, and is on video, that he would bankrupt any new power plants.  What do you mean, “… don’t distort his meaning.”  This is a direct threat to bankrupting the entire coal industry.  There is simply no other way to objectively interpret this.  BTW – this is exactly what cap-and-trade was designed to do.  Cap-and-trade is nothing more than a government takeover of our energy production, emmissions, and usage.  The government would then be able to control essentially every business in the US, all the way down to the furnances in our houses.  And, you are completely incorrect in linking carbon capture with coal plants being economical.  The inverse relationship is true, however.  Coal fired plants produce 50% of the entire electrical output of the entire US.  So, when Obama bankrupts the coal industry where is our energy coming?  Hint:  don’t look to Solyndra. 

Google Obama Coal Bankrupt Hearst.  You have to add “Hearst” because they own the copyright to the interview and video and have apparently prohibited the youtube video being shown by certain parties.  However, if you look around you can find it.

I just do not like Smugg A$$HO;es!

Wow dude, you off your meds?

That can only explain how one guy can can be so many kinds of wrong.

BTW no one is “Molon Lave” , coming to take your guns. But with your delusional level of obvious unstability , maybe for your safety and the safety of others some one should.

I do not use anyone for my banking who got a government bailout. I own my house outright and I have no credit cards and I buy my cars for cash. I pay more in taxes than I should because these fools protesting wall Street voted for clowns who cannot control their spending to buy occupy and liberal votes all while the same clowns who are in power are receiving bribes from Wall Street and telling everyone that Wall Street is to blame.  you occupy & liberal fools cannot figure out why things are so screwed up.  For the GunTotingLib I have a bigger gun Molon Lave A$$HO:E! I am tired of fools telling me to pay more in taxes when they have no intention of paying themselves! Come and get it A$$HO:E!

The Volt got top safety ratings from the IIHS and NHTSA, better than the big, heavy Hummer, and better than the 2010 E-class.

Oh, and the battery fires started _weeks_ after the staged accident, and NHTSA didn’t drain the battery after the tests.

Uh, cars today last longer than the warranties. If the Prius battery lasts far longer than its warranty, why not the Volt’s?

If the batteries only last a year, then why are there so many 10 year old Priuses still on the road?

Old batteries – too tired for cars but still having capacity — go to wind farms for backup power.

Does it defrost well? Does it have air conditioning?

Check out the specs of the Teslas far exceed 70 miles

Go try to buy one , they have sold all they build in this first gen limited run.

I wonder if he though someone that bought a $40,000 32 inch flat Teevee 20 years ago ” “intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are.” But not just early innovators that help lead the way in the maturity of a product.

Electric cars are the future, the first gen will be less then impressive and expensive. But as battery technology  matures ,prices will drop and range will extend. And as solar technology matures more, cars will eventually be nearly perpetual. Seldom needing a charge. They are the future, have the foresight to see 20 years down the road.

With in 5 years there will be a car with 2 to 300 mile rang that will sell for $20,000 or less and every family with two cars could easily do with  a single gas a and a electric car. Cars can charge at non peek evening hours and cut our oil usage by 10s of % points, improve air quality in big cities and lead us to the next generation of electric cars.

The Volt is “hated” for one reason, because it exists because Obama helped save the great American manufacturing company GM. Just one more symptom of Obama derangement syndrome. Please see a doctor.

Yup. They’d be better off giving the $10,000 to a family with a worn out piece of junk to buy an entry-level Hyundai that got good gas mileage, saving them money week-to-week, and getting them to work and back safely and reliably.

I like my Audi that much more now….

I had a friend who professed himself being muslim, but wore a big wooden cross all the  time, when I asked him why does he wear that cross, he said “Just in case brother” same goes with the Volt, charge it up “Just in Case” it does not work.

The Chevy Dolt was never made to make a profit. It is another of the mandated piece of crud feel good stuff of the green mandates. Funny thing about electric cars nowadays, they create more pollution than a normal car. An electric car requires electricity that is created in plants on the electric grid. These plants are not as efficient as a standard internal combustion engine. Also the loss over the transmission of electricity is another waste of energy. The majority of green energies is actually worst for the environment than standard energy sources.

What I find highly amusing of eco freaks is that they are doing more harm to the environment than the older technologies.

I guess they are putting their smugness above the greater good. Oh well, all eco freaks are just falling for the watermelon tactics.

He’s absolutely right!

While GM was designing a heavily battery laden car too expensive for most
buyers other companies are developed more efficient gas and diesel engines
(see Mazda’s new line of engines)  that approach hybrid mpg without all the battery nonsens.   European turbo-diesels have been doing the same in Europe for years.   The only use of battery drive cars is as an extra vehicle to run to the store or to visit your brother in the next subdivision.  Most people can’t afford
this luxury…therefore the Audi guy is right.

Well, if you can keep the battery charged with this mysterious little gas engine, why would you ever have to plug it in to an outlet to charge it??  DREAM ON!!