Obama’s many years as a successful businessman has taught him much about what is and isn’t successful in the modern economy, where over a million items are available on the market and are dynamically changing in reference to the other items on the market.

Am I right, guys?

…is largely responsible for the current state of GM. Instead of serving the wants of their customers they are mandated to serve many multiple masters in government.

If bureaucrats want to get us to demand cars that get better gas mileage then they need to find the courage to raise gas taxes instead of hiding behind CAFE standards. At least that would lead to a market demand for higher mileage cars. You can’t blame GM or Ford for making trucks and SUV’s since that is what their customers WANTED. Even Toyota started making big trucks and SUVs to compete.

Again we see that government is the problem and not the solution.

So after all these years where business experts were stating in no uncertain terms that green autos weren’t economically viable, the leader of the left comes to the same conclusion?

Is Barry the dumkopf he appears to be when he says these things, or is he really brilliant at hiding his agenda?

It’s a tough choice.

Forget Blacks and Mexicans….forget reaching out to squishy Independents…

The new voting block we have to go after are high-earning White-collar businessmen!

Build better small cars? That’s the best they could come up with?! Not cars people actually want to buy mind you. I predict that, in 60 days, GM will go the way of Duesy, Arrow, Kaiser and the 561 other now-defunct American automobile manufacturers. The difference is the failure of those companies didn’t result in tens of billions in debt for future generations to pay off.

This would be funny if my country weren’t getting permanently screwed over in the process.

I wanted a Volt when it finally came out…this is just another reason to dislike Obama.

So they think the Volt et al. are failures as money makers. Even if that’s true, what the hell would the fed, or most any other level of gov’t know about it, or what experience do any of them have in ceasing a program because it is obviously failing? When’s the last time a school program was canceled when it was deemed a failure? How ’bout any Fed program? Name one.

I don’t know what their angle is on this one in the fascist takeover of this country, but it seems like the truly gov’t-esque answer should be “The Volt may not make money? No problem: subsidize the purchase price so it’s more affordable.”

“Thanks to a huge flip-flop from their new CEO (Barack Obama), it seems like the Volt will be stillborn.”

More likely, aborted. At nearly full term.

Go Figure…

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I can tell you the workers are stunned. Wagoner is very well liked here and an honest guy. I am telling you there is no way the government gets rid of Wagoner unless there is some sort of agenda. I can also tell you the union leaders are SILENT, NOTHING, NOT A WORD. Living here like I do I can assure you Ron does not shut up. The fact that he is not saying anything is suspect.

We have heard, (not confirmed) that the government is doing away with all SUV’s and trucks…. Europe here we come in our little vehicles.

Ford started feeling the pain in 2006 and retooled their plants and their engineering. It took big losses but it also showed commitment by them. They started building and marketing a better quality car and lowered labor costs by using more robotics.

This is where the Obama experimant with GM will fail, I suspect that he did not like the GM plan because to many union jobs would be lost and he would rather run the company into the ground then suggest that some union jobs are lost. If it all goes south he can try to save face with the union and blame GM

where pickup trucks and SUVs are as important to us as tools are to a mechanic.

I agree government intrusion has significantly impaired the Big 3 to compete with other auto companies, but the lack of wage competition tied to productivity between the Big 3 is and still will be its downfall. When the UAW owns the employees of the Big 3, what incentive do they have to produce a quality product? Sure, the management could have said no to UAW contractual demands, but how long can a company sit idle costing millions of dollars a day when the public relations friendly, cheaper short term alternative is legalized extortion? This is a classic case of letting the inmates run the asylum coming back to bite them in the backside.

I know that spreading the blame to union leadership and employees is unpopular in a day where demonizing CEO’s for all the world’s troubles is chic now, but running under this business model is a text book loser. Competition fuels innovation. If the UAW thinks they know how to run an auto manufacturing plant, Ron Gettelfinger should be the next CEO of GM. I’d give that business model about 2 weeks before going belly-up.

On a side note: Obama announcing Chrysler had 30 days to finalize their deal with Fiat has destroyed any chance for a favorable outcome for them. Fiat will be able to ask for the moon and get it, plus a few tax dollars extra to take it off the government’s hands.

“While the volt holds promise it will likely be too expensive to be commercially successfull in the short term”

This is why governments cant run businesses, the inability to think in the long term. Using this logic there would be no such thing as television, cell phones, or computers, or almost any other technological inovation for that matter.

Ford now owns the SUV and truck market. How is Obomba (the spelling is intentional) going to deal with that, the competition obviously cant be tolerated. Will he legislate the vehicles out of existance, or tax gas untill no one can afford to drive them.

The firing of Wagoner resulted in a five point jump in Obomba’s approval numbers. The usefull idiots are in the majority.

Diesel efficiency has also been around for a long time and 235 MPG diesel cars are a reality, it’s not a Hybrid. Yet we are hounded that we must drive cars like the Toyota Prius hybrid that gets 46 MPG. But we can’t drive these more efficient diesel cars because they don’t pass in the five states that follow California clean-air regulations.

http://gas2.org/2008/05/07/vw-confirms-1l-concept-will-become-reality-in-2010/

All Electric and Electric Hybrids, look at the basic physics of overall energy consumption. The overall energy consumption is power from the grid stored in a battery and/or from a fuel. The overall energy needed to get a car from point A to point B is determined by its coefficient of drag and weight. From one US gallon of fuel or about 7.3 lb (using above as an example) it is possible to get 235 miles. Is it possible to get 235 miles out of a 7.3 lb battery, no? How much more would a battery weigh thus consuming more energy to go 235 miles? Therein the weight of a battery is an issue, energy costs be it from the pump or from your electric bill. Battery power is not green because it uses more energy. We should be talking about conserving instead of spreading it around, heck “spreading it around” now where did hear that from. Throwing more money at this problem will not solve it any time soon yet the stimulus bill has $2,000,000,000 for a battery. And now no more Chevy Volt?

We need a new government, heck what a mess…

that Obama doesn’t want economicaly viable companies, but government dependance