Consumer Reports Knocks the Volt
From: Michelle Malkin
**Written by Doug Powers
The New York Times had a turn last summer, calling the Volt “GMs electric lemon,” and now Consumer Reports offers a review:
Consumer Reports offered a harsh initial review of the Chevrolet Volt, questioning whether General Motors Co.’s flagship vehicle makes economic “sense.”The extended-range plug-in electric vehicle is on the cover of the April issue — the influential magazine’s annual survey of vehicles — but the GM vehicle comes in for criticism.
“When you are looking at purely dollars and cents, it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. The Volt isn’t particularly efficient as an electric vehicle and it’s not particularly good as a gas vehicle either in terms of fuel economy,” said David Champion, the senior director of Consumer Reports auto testing center at a meeting with reporters here. “This is going to be a tough sell to the average consumer.”
Let’s see… taxpayer money is being dumped into a car that the public can’t afford and/or doesn’t want. Demand for the expensive product is to be created by high gas prices combined with goading the public into buying one by scaring them with a mythical crisis pushed by an enviro-hypocrite who goes around in a private jet telling everybody the oceans are going to rise and flood the same coastlines where he recently invested millions in a seaside mansion. In a nutshell, the theme park impresarios who proposed “Six Flags Over Chernobyl” had a more solid business plan.
The Volt is in part the brainchild of politicians who expect everyone to believe that we need to spend money to keep from going bankrupt, so was the “economic sense” of the thing ever really in question?
They say it’s called the “Volt” because “Massively Expensive Union Bailout” wouldn’t fit on the hood. If the batteries continue to perform poorly in cold weather, don’t look for the Volt to be scrapped, but rather for several billion taxpayer dollars to be spent on a “Winning the Future” extension cord program.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
SICK… Media Matters Smear Merchant Eric Boehlert Amused By Violence Against FOX News Reporter (Audio)
From: Gateway Pundit
These people are sick.
Soros-funded leftist Eric Boehlert thinks its funny that FOX News reporter Mike Tobin was assaulted this week by far left goons in Madison, Wisconsin.
No wonder they love him at the smear-website Media Matters.
Via Radio Equalizer:
Transcript via Radio Equalizer:
GREG JARRETT: Why do they express such vitriol toward the media?
MILLER: HA!
ERIC BOEHLERT: Ha ha ha.
MIKE TOBIN: You know, I don’t know what they intend to [Miller laughing in the background] accomplish by it, but they definitely as you can see by covering up the cameras they want to shut down the communication.
MILLER: HA! No, they didn’t say ‘the media’, they said ‘Fox News.’
BOEHLERT: I didn’t hear any Washington, I didn’t see any Washington Post demonstrations etc. Now this is I was just looking at some clips of this and then later over at some point over the weekend he and this reporter and Geraldo had an on-air pity party and the reporter talked about how these protesters, just hate free speech and hate diversity of viewpoint and you can see the hatred in their eyes.
[Miller laughing in the background]
You just have to laugh.
Overnight Open Thread
From: Ace of Spades HQ
Charlie Sheen and Drugs Taking method acting further and longer than any other thespian dares. So far he’s managed to stay in character for a record-setting 25 years. And he’s winning baby!…
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Quotes of the day
From: Hot Air » Top Picks
Unscripted.
Via the Daily Caller. *** “Weird how Christie says absolutely *nothing* about the current president who can’t open his piehole w/o a teleprompter, but goes after Palin… “.@GovChristie is bad on immigration, 2nd amendment, & supports cap & tax. And he has the gall to even *talk* about Palin?… “I’m wondering, how long would @GovChristie, [...]
Seattle, City of ‘Good Little Socialist’ Cops?
From: FOXNews.com
Officer accuses city of going too far in reacting to complaints of racism and excessive force against minorities
9/11 Victims’ Families Still Waiting for Justice
From: FOXNews.com
Families grow impatient after two years pass since Obama promised ‘swift and certain justice’
U.N. Report May Praise Libya for Human Rights
From: FOXNews.com
U.N. Human Rights Council is close to voting on a report commending Libya on numerous fronts
New Report Finds Capital of Waste
From: FOXNews.com
GAO to release a report that shows potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in federal waste, which one senator says ‘will make us all look like jackasses.’
Video: Charlie Sheen “winning” in his own special way
From: Hot Air » Top Picks
Obligatory.
If a local reporter with a migraine mumbling about “burtations” is worthy of two posts, I think America’s new philosopher-poet of addiction merits at least one. Jonah Goldberg described my feelings about this exactly: I’m trying to decide what I think about all of this Charlie Sheen nuttiness. If you take the position he doesn’t [...]
Once Again… Barack Obama Blames Bush for The Deficit He Tripled in One Year
From: Gateway Pundit
Do Republican governors like being lied to?
Do Republican governors always sit on their hands when they’re being lied to?
Do Republican governors really believe the nation is suffering from a deficit and debt crisis?… If so, why do they sit there as Barack Obama continues to play twisted blame games with them concerning the deficit?
Today Barack Obama once again blamed George W. Bush for the deficit he created… and that grows larger by the year.
Barack Obama tripled the national deficit in his first year in office. His second year in office the deficit was at $1.29 Trillion dollars. This year he will top it again.
There’s a reason why the state-run media won’t show you this chart.
This chart was updated to reflect the recent news that the deficit this year will reach $1.6 trillion. (The Captain’s Comments)
Barack Obama blamed Bush today for the national deficit that he just tripled in one year.
Transcript via Shallow Nation:
Making these necessary investments would be hard at any time. But it’s that much harder at a time when resources are scarce. After living through a decade of deficits and a historic recession that made them worse, we can’t afford to kick the can down the road any longer. So the budget debate that we’re having is going to be critical here in Washington. And so far, most of it’s been focused almost entirely on how much of annual domestic spending — what in the parlance we all domestic discretionary spending — that we should cut. There’s no doubt that cuts in discretionary spending have to be a part of the answer for deficit reduction.
This is not an honest man.
