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Rush rips Volt, 'Obama Motors' - Tim Alberta - POLITICO.com
Definitely entertaining if nothing else. Got to love the BIB!
“However, you can get it for less — there's a $7,500 tax credit,” Limbaugh said with a sardonic tone on his Wednesday program. “Which means that Obama and the government are admitting that nobody wants this. Nobody wants it. We gotta give you a $7,500 discount. Why don't you try this, Mr. Obama, and the rest of you at Obama Motors: Just put it out there at 41 grand and let the market decide.”
Limbaugh repeated this sentiment throughout the segment, later quoting an “Obama vehicles executive” — referring to GM's vehicle line director for the Volt, Tony Posawatz — who called the Volt “a game-changing product.”
"The iPhone was a game-changing product," Limbaugh said, "and it didn't take a tax credit. And they sold over 90 million of the things. A game-changing product does not need a tax credit. They're mutually exclusive.”
Read more: Rush rips Volt, 'Obama Motors' - Tim Alberta - POLITICO.com
"OK, $30,000 for Prius, $41,000 for a Chevy Volt and 10 cents for a red AIDS ribbon," he said. "Look how much the cost has gone up to show how much you care. You used to be able to show everybody how superior you were and how much you cared with a 10-cent red ribbon. Now you gotta spend 30 grand or 41 grand on a car to show everybody how much better you are than everybody else."
Read more: Rush rips Volt, 'Obama Motors' - Tim Alberta - POLITICO.com
Here is what Rush doesn't realize about the iPhone--it is heavily subsidized (actual cost $600) by AT&T which themselves gets grants and contracts with the government. Also yeah he compared them to an AIDS ribbon.
Here is what Rush doesn't realize about the iPhone--it is heavily subsidized (actual cost $600) by AT&T which themselves gets grants and contracts with the government. Also yeah he compared them to an AIDS ribbon.
Oh, now I see why you didn't quote Rush... cause he nails the volt as a POS.
That quote utterly and completely failed to demonstrate that the Volt is a POS. If you get a tax credit for the kids you have, does that mean each of them is a POS too? :lol
Aside from that, I fail to understand why it is that a vehicle which averages roughly twice the best gas mileage currently available is a POS.
In the last 10 years, I have listened to about 15 minutes of Rush.No, he didn't.
He poked fun at the cost of showing how much you CARE.
Used to be $.10 for an AIDS ribbon, now it's $41K to show you CARE.
To say he "compared them" is inaccurate. He compared what they SYMBOLIZE.
Actually, its probably more efficient to just buy a motorcycle if you want to reduce gas mileage than it is to get an electric car.
Not as safe though.
A lot of people claim that, and yet, so few are ever able to back up said claim with specifics.The guy makes a lot of really odd assumptions and generalizations that are completely untrue.
No, you didn't. You gave a generalization.I just gave you some?
Right here. It was on his show the other day. Do you just want me to record it next time, post it up here then give you specifics that way?On one hand, the guy loves to call young people lazy because I guess we all live off the government, but then the next minute he is talking about how much he supports the troops..which aren't most of them young people?
TacticalEvilDan said:If you get a tax credit for the kids you have, does that mean each of them is a POS too?
The bolded part sums up your entire post.
Do you know how many gallons the Volt Gas tank is? The best info I've seen/heard is 9 Gallons. 340 Miles on 9 gallons is roughly 37.7MPG.
My Focus get's 35.
So yeah, there is that 40 or so miles of battery you can drive on, and for folks that live close to work/shopping that's ACES! More power to you.
I do lot's of driving, our car is, 3 years old in Oct and has 60k on it all ready.
The Volt, however, can use both gasoline and grid electricity; thus, assigning a fuel economy value that only refers to on-board gasoline would not be appropriate. The EPA is working on an updated methodology for determining and then reporting the equivalent fuel economy of PHEVs. An EPA presentation to the Society of Automotive Engineers in February, 2009 discussed a method based on SAE J1711 to combine the gasoline fuel economy with the electrical fuel economy using the petroleum equivalency factor of 33.7 kW·h⁄gallonUS (the lower heating value of gasoline and the value used by the DOE[78]) which would combine GM's estimated city fuel economies for the Volt into an overall 85 mpgge[notes 1] for reporting.[79][80]
In the last 10 years, I have listened to about 15 minutes of Rush.
5 of those minutes included the very thing you noted above, and I can say that you are absolutely correct.
If those that hate Rush so much had any real basis for their hate, they'd not have to make things up.
I don't hate Rush, I just accept that he mixes in the truth with made-up crap and crap that may as well be made-up because of how he presents it.
The other day, he was giving Obama a hard time about his announcement that we're getting out of Iraq on schedule.
Rush brought up a plan Obama had proposed way back when that would've had us out by March 08 and wanted to know what happened to THAT plan.
Never mind the fact that Obama wasn't even President then, right? :lol:
No, that was just what he promised he would do if elected, in order to garnish the anti-war voters. Rush was just pointing out the BS our beloved leader shoveled to get elected.
No, that was just what he promised he would do if elected, in order to garnish the anti-war voters. Rush was just pointing out the BS our beloved leader shoveled to get elected.
The bolded part sums up your entire post.
Do you know how many gallons the Volt Gas tank is? The best info I've seen/heard is 9 Gallons. 340 Miles on 9 gallons is roughly 37.7MPG.
My Focus get's 35.
So yeah, there is that 40 or so miles of battery you can drive on, and for folks that live close to work/shopping that's ACES! More power to you.
I do lot's of driving, our car is, 3 years old in Oct and has 60k on it all ready.
I don't hate Rush at all, in fact I have fond memories of listening to him in my granddad's truck as a kid on our way to ACE's to get some more wire for a fence on the farm (his BIB jingle? I love it) just the guy is a little crazy sometimes.
The guy makes a lot of really odd assumptions and generalizations that are completely untrue. On one hand, the guy loves to call young people lazy because I guess we all live off the government, but then the next minute he is talking about how much he supports the troops..which aren't most of them young people? The $7,500 credit he is talking about also doesn't just apply to the Volt, it applies to quite a few cars depending on the price. It is used to help stimulate the economy, keep jobs, and help the environment. It kills 3 birds with one stone.
I do lot's of driving, our car is, 3 years old in Oct and has 60k on it all ready.
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