"What a ReVOLTing Development This Is!!" ---Chester A. Riley

The scams coming from DC are getting brazenly more transparent. Ah, that's a campaign promise,'transparency', kept by the President!! Well, sort of....

Welcome to The Front Porch, where we talk about the obvious!

We all are familiar with the recent automotive disaster that's been hatched by the DC and Union leader crowd: The Chevy Volt. Unlike 'Cash for Clunkers," it takes no depth of 'business understanding' at all to see where this baby's headed. Right past the Edsel into the Automotive History Hall of Shame.

If you know someone naive enough to think the $40,000 40 mile range Volt is a good idea, sell 'em your Carbon Credits you just picked up at Quik-copy.

First, the patently obvious:

What nitwit would spend his own money, $40,000 of his own money, for a car that sucks electricity out his house, travels only 40 miles, then sucks down premium gasoline. and requires a 3-4 hour 'charge' for each 40 miles?

What nitwit would buy the damned thing even if we're picking up $7,500 of the tab?

Just because Obama got 52% of the popular vote, doesn't mean that majority was totally stupid. 80% of them expected you would be paying for their "ride" (sorry about that). The story will be considerably different for the dole class and the snot class when they're asked to front their own money for the thing.

What nitwit believes this marketing Nagasaki will address 'environmental' concerns? Where does the electricity come from?

It will be interesting to see the next move when the only people buying the things are government agencies required to do so....

I'm sure folks owning Chevy dealerships are wetting their pants in anticipation. This is going to be WAY worse than the Vega. (Remember 'aluminum' engines?)

Meantime, "jobs" assembling these instant door stops will reward Union leaders. It WILL be your patriotic duty to buy one. $40,000 for a tin can that needs an extension cord? Self-immolation is not a patriotic duty.

In the end WE, the folks who are supposed to be stupid enough to buy one of these, will foot the bill for the next bail-out. After all, we can't let the ingenius working of sanctimoniously 'divine right' elitists who never ran a lemonade stand (but have a certificate of indoctrination from an Ivy Leaugue school) and Union bosses (who have killed jobs across America by underwhelming quality control and exorbitant prices they charge for their product via legislative monopoly) have to get on with their leeching, er, business. Besides, by then we'll all "know" this was "our" fault.

One irony, before ceasing my rant: Why is GM building $40,000 cars for a citizenry who is just getting shackled into 'restributing' their wealth to the poorer folks in the world? Maybe the answer to that one explains the true intention,as opposed to the publicly stated one, about this latest boondoggle.

Well, whaddya think?