Government Motors has announced it will discontinue making the Volt automobile for several months and will lay off 1300 workers. GM blames the slow sales of the battery-power little car on the news media, which has reported that the battery is a fire danger.
Halting Volt production comes only days after Obama boasted as one of his great accomplishments the Volt, and he promised to buy one "five years from now when I'm no longer president."
Despite the taxpayer subsidy of $l5,000 for any purchaser of the Volt, sales had been slow from the time they were first offered for sale. Could this be like other Obama ballyhooed government promoted projects, it doesn't meet the desires of the American people? Or perhaps like other "green" products, it is not economically competitive.
Halting Volt production comes only days after Obama boasted as one of his great accomplishments the Volt, and he promised to buy one "five years from now when I'm no longer president."
Despite the taxpayer subsidy of $l5,000 for any purchaser of the Volt, sales had been slow from the time they were first offered for sale. Could this be like other Obama ballyhooed government promoted projects, it doesn't meet the desires of the American people? Or perhaps like other "green" products, it is not economically competitive.
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