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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 1024890" data-attributes="member: 25159">Wow!!!&nbsp; The Liberal rag, the Washington Post has slammed the Chevy Volt:GM’s vaunted Volt is on the road to nowhere fastAS A CANDIDATE for president in 2008, Barack Obama set a goal of getting 1 million all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015. In February 2011, the Obama administration’s Energy Department issued an analysis purporting to show that, with the help of subsidies and tax credits, “the goal is achievable.” This was a paltry claim in the first place, since 1 million cars amount to less than 1 percent of the total U.S. fleet. Yet it is increasingly clear that, despite the commitment of many millions of taxpayer dollars, the United States will not hit Mr. Obama’s target by 2015. A recent CBS News analysis suggested that we’ll be lucky to get a third of the way there.Read more:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gms-volt-is-on-the-road-to-nowhere/2012/09/12/29cd8216-fd0d-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html" target="_blank">GM&amp;rsquo;s Volt is on the road to nowhere - The Washington Post</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 1024890, member: 25159"] [COLOR=#0000CD]Wow!!! The Liberal rag, the Washington Post has slammed the Chevy Volt:[/COLOR] [SIZE=2][B]GM’s vaunted Volt is on the road to nowhere fast [/B]AS A CANDIDATE for president in 2008, Barack Obama set a goal of getting 1 million all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015. In February 2011, the Obama administration’s Energy Department issued an analysis purporting to show that, with the help of subsidies and tax credits, “the goal is achievable.” This was a paltry claim in the first place, since 1 million cars amount to less than 1 percent of the total U.S. fleet. Yet it is increasingly clear that, despite the commitment of many millions of taxpayer dollars, the United States will not hit Mr. Obama’s target by 2015. A recent CBS News analysis suggested that we’ll be lucky to get a third of the way there. Read more: [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gms-volt-is-on-the-road-to-nowhere/2012/09/12/29cd8216-fd0d-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html]GM’s Volt is on the road to nowhere - The Washington Post[/url][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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