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Monday, March 12, 2012

The government's electric car

       WHAT GUMMINT DOES     
“For General Motors and the Obama administration, the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid represents the automotive future, the culmination of decades of high-tech research financed partly with federal dollars.” New York Times


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Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt, the highly touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.

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2 comments:

  1. TimO3/12/12, 9:29 AM

    Even better: The enclosed Detroit Electric car got 80miles per charge and on one record-setting run got over 200.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric

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  2. Rodger the Real King of France3/12/12, 9:59 AM

    All of which is why the Founders, in their collective wisdom, did their damnedest to limit what gummint was allowed to do. They did their part; we've failed to enforce.

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