On February 23rd, President Obama gave a speech on his energy plan, where he discussed the importance of green energy. In particular, and laughably to many, he discussed the idea of algae based biofuels. As the Washington Examiner reports: “We’re making new
Fox News’ Eric Bolling gave a bad review of the Chevy volt earlier this year. Chevy asked to meet with Bolling to discuss ways that they could improve his experience with the “green” car. Bolling suggested Chevy loan him a
Washington- General Motors extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt had its worst sales month since August, as negative publicity over fire risks hurt vehicles sales in January. GM sold just 603 Volts – above its sales in January 2011, but far below
Bob Lutz is a good man. A Swiss-born immigrant American success story. He’s held big gigs at BMW and Ford. He also worked way up the food chain at (now $85 billion bailed-out) Chrysler and General Motors (GM) – retiring
I attended Wednesday’s 8:00am (8am?!?) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled: Volt Vehicle Fire: What Did NHTSA Know And When Did They Know It? The witnesses were killer: National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Barack Obama-appointee Administrator David
This morning, Rep. Jan Schakowsky appeared on the Don Wade and Roma show on WLS-AM Chicago to comment on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Schakowsky praised the president’s green energy initiatives, claiming that the (recalled) Chevy Volt
It was so full of promise, the ideal candidate with grandiose plans to fundamentally transform America had won. The man the New York Times had worked so hard to help elect was about to usher in a period of utopian
My love for Blu-ray threatens every bit of financial security I’ve managed to build up over the years. Amazon.com is my dealer, and I am its numero uno degenerate junkie. The challenge is that most of my embarrassingly large DVD
President Barack Obama is in full 2012 reelection mode. Part of that process is preparing to possibly take on Mitt Romney – whom (it appears) he thinks has the strongest chance to be his Republican opponent. Which he and many
What’s an absurd Leftist policy without an agitprop song to accompany the inanity? The attempted spoonful-of-sugar to help force down the bad Progressive medicine they are pushing. Which brings us to General Motors (GM) and one of the Leftist ideological
For years, the lawyers have not been able to resist instructing the auto industry. Since Ralph Nader began tinkering in the sixties, cars have gone from iconic to ridiculous. We have seen great cars like the Impala turned into a
DETROIT (AP) – A person briefed on the matter says General Motors will ask Volt owners to bring their electric cars into dealers to strengthen the structure around the batteries. The move is similar to a recall and involves the
Yesterday we stumbled across a marketing team promoting GM vehicles at the University of Chicago. Students were being offered $10 to test drive Chevy’s inferior quality cars around campus, and promised an additional $10 to the Colleges Against Cancer fund
From the Associated Press: General Motors will buy Chevrolet Volts back from any owner who is afraid the electric cars will catch fire, the company’s CEO said Thursday. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, CEO Dan Akerson insisted
Government Motors has finally found its hottest car and the Chevy Volt is it. Unfortunately for Chevy, it isn’t because it is popular. It’s because the car seems to catch on fire a lot. Industry watchers are preparing for the
We have oft spoken of how ridiculous Government General Motors (GM) has continued to become since receiving $50 billion of our bailout money. And of the Barack Obama Administration’s puffing up for political and campaign purposes GM’s alleged “recovery” from
UPDATE: The White House has responded to our inquiry and they deny that this week’s weekly address video was shot in front of a green screen. They also explained that the production line that the president was posed in front
‘THE SUPER COPS’ FINALLY GETS DVD RELEASE As a kid I used to be sure to stay up — even on a school night — to catch this whenever it played on the Late Show. With that ritual long dead,
We have spoken often of this last four years being the Third Age of Bailout. Where we have seen trillions of dollars of our coin shoveled out of D.C. in innumerable terrible directions. A $1.09 trillion, 29% increase in annual
There has been news aplenty about the Solyndra solar power company. The chock-full-of-Barack-Obama-Administration-cronies-and-donors corporation that received more than half a billion dollars in government-guaranteed loans to build the alleged future of energy. Which President Obama hailed as such after the
We’ve all seen the staggeringly horrific sales figures for the Chevy Volt. In any other market for any other consumer good, this hunk of junk would’ve been left in the dustbin of historic manufacturing failures, like the Apple II. Just
Today, in 1957, Ford introduced the Edsel. Think Chevy Volt.
You’ve heard the expression “building on success.” Where you identify something that’s working – and work to maximize and further broaden its fruition. In large part by determining what’s working – and seeking to replicate it. The Left has always
Every time we turn around these days President Obama is touting the idea that the “future” of America lies in green energy and one of those greenie ideas is an Obama favorite: electric cars. Not to let him down, Government
So here we are into the first year of the Chevy Volt, and President Obama’s prediction of selling 15,000 vehicles by the end of the year, is still about 12,000 short. It’s not a good start for the Administration who
