General Motors Rapidly Becoming a Taxpayer-Funded, Disingenuous Leftist Entity

[Geee]

Big Government:


General Motors (GM) continues apace its government-backed conversion from a company existing to manufacture automobiles for money – into a fully-formed, Leftist ideological entity working as another wing of the Barack Obama Administration’s fundamental transformation of America.

A de facto non-profit organization posing as a for-profit car joint. That seems less and less concerned with designing cars people want, and is instead looking to redesign the nation – with products and policies Americans have time and again demonstrated they don’t want anything to do with.
How else to explain the continued expanded production of the expensive, unprofitable (yet heavily subsidized) and unpopular Chevy Volt?
How else to explain Administration-appointee Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dan Akerson calling for a $1-per-gallon gasoline tax hike? Which would demonstrably hurt his supposed industry – but is proffered in the perverse hope of forcing people into the Volts they thus far have avoided like the Bubonic Plague?
How else to explain the GM all solar-powered Volt plant? Solar paneling which cost $3 million to purchase and install – buy only saves them $15,000 a year in electricity.
Let’s do the math, shall we?
This means that for the plant to break even via savings on the green investment, it will have to operate – without solar fail, while making unprofitable cars no one wants – for two hundred years.
But wait – the average solar panel lifespan is 20-25 years, after which you have to purchase them all over again. So you’ll have to refit the factory 8-10 times during that 200 years, at another approximately $3 million (plus inflation) a pop, so….
Oh, and the panels are pretty much radioactive when spent, so getting rid of them ain’t cheap.
But besides that….
And on, and on and on the GM inanities go.

[Ghost]

If I ever have money for a new vehicle I will do a Ford.

 

Funny, at one time that to me would have been a HORRID thought

[Argyle58]

If I ever have money for a new vehicle I will do a Ford.

 

Funny, at one time that to me would have been a HORRID thought

 

Still a horrid thought. I will not be buying a new vehicle anytime soon.....if anything happens to my Pre-Government Motors pickup, I'll just repair it, or rebuild it.

[Evad]

GM is proving they can launder money for the DNC with the best of 'em.