http://www.ecoautoninja.com/eco-hybrid-vehicles/chevy-volt-condemned-by-wapo-64922/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ecoautoninja.com/eco-hybrid-vehicles/chevy-volt-condemned-by-wapo-64922/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Allan M Salzberg MD, PhD Tue, 05 May 2009 01:44:46 +0000 http://www.ecoautoninja.com/?p=731#comment-173 I agree with the above comment. The author has no concept of R&D. Agreed the first Volts will be expensive. Tetracycline when it came out in the late 1940s cost $.50/pill. Today it is far less. The Volt will lead to a change in the way America Drives, and its technology will be widely used. I for one plan to buy it as it is a beautiful piece of technology. Also, when gasoline again reaches over $4/gallon, and gasoline becomes scarce, the true value of the Volt will become apparent. I agree with the above comment. The author has no concept of R&D. Agreed the first Volts will be expensive. Tetracycline when it came out in the late 1940s cost $.50/pill. Today it is far less. The Volt will lead to a change in the way America Drives, and its technology will be widely used. I for one plan to buy it as it is a beautiful piece of technology. Also, when gasoline again reaches over $4/gallon, and gasoline becomes scarce, the true value of the Volt will become apparent.

]]> http://www.ecoautoninja.com/eco-hybrid-vehicles/chevy-volt-condemned-by-wapo-64922/comment-page-1/#comment-172 kent beuchert Mon, 04 May 2009 19:52:33 +0000 http://www.ecoautoninja.com/?p=731#comment-172 Charles Lane is a moron. Evn if the Volt is a complete bust, its less than a billiob dollar development costs are hardly the reason that a company with a total debt over $40 billion is having financial problems. The Washington Post is unionized, so you'd think they would notice that GM is paying their unskilled/uneducated low output union workers over $125K per year, meaning they are paying about $5 billion too much in labor costs. I'd say that Lane is one pro-union dumb bunny. Charles Lane is a moron. Evn if the Volt is a complete bust, its less than a billiob dollar development costs are hardly the reason that a company with a total debt over $40 billion is having financial problems. The Washington Post is unionized, so you’d think they would notice that GM is paying their unskilled/uneducated low output union workers over $125K per year, meaning they are paying about $5 billion too much in labor costs. I’d say that Lane is one pro-union dumb bunny.

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