Electric Asshattery

GREEN CRAP BAD KARMA

“ Got a Half-Billion Dollar Gummint Loan Guarantee The Fisker Karma is a plug-in hybrid car that seems to have everything the rich and famous — and environmentally correct — look for in a set of wheels. Sleek silhouette? Check. Green cred? Check. Six-figure price tag? Check. Reliable battery? Not so fast. In a test conducted Wednesday by Consumer Reports magazine, the niche-market $107,850 sports car conked out completely, after a short ride at 65 miles per hour on a Connecticut test track. “Our Fisker Karma … is super sleek, high-tech — and now it’s broken,” Consumer Reports wrote on its website late Thursday. “We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles on its odometer … We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.” A Consumer Reports video shows a flatbed truck, sent by the Fisker dealer who sold the car, preparing to tow it away.[story] "James May Drives Hydrogen Powered Car," now showing in  Header Theater may be of interest.  In the meanwhile Obama is promising to give $10,000 of your money to any asshat who buys a Chevy ReVOLTing.  In the same breath that staggeringly stupid sumbitch  is still  lobbying against the Keystone pipeline.  Okay, I was wrong to use "stupid."  Evil, ”