The Flaming Volts - Not a Punk Band

The NHTSA sat on the news of the Volt fires for six months.


Why? I dunno, let me think of a few reasons for a gov't to put it's people in danger while promoting a green (Solyndra!) agenda:

• The federal government still owns about a third of GM.
• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is part of the federal government.
• GM and the federal government have invested billions of dollars in the Volt.
• The federal government further underwrites each Volt by giving purchasers a $7,500 tax credit.
• The federal government is the single largest customer of the Volt.

 When apprised of these issues - the writers at the Detroit Free Press said that these types of comments are the results of "entrenched Republicans" or "global warming deniers".

You have to be a gullible in-the-tank-for-Obama editorial writer for the Detroit Free Press not to have suspicions about the why's and whyfor's of these investments. One writer compared the "investment" in green technology to NASA. "Where would we be without the often battered investment we made in NASA?" he asks poignantly, just as the gov't abandons NASA for the efficiency of private, for profit enterprise, blithely ignoring the fact that the gov't "investment" in NASA in the late 50's was PURELY MILITARY, DEFENSIVE and STRATEGIC.


I guess when you are green, you pretty well remove yourself from reality.


Unless of course, you are on fire.