ThinkProgress Blames Rush Limbaugh For GM’s Decision To Halt Chevy Volt Production…
Do they really believe one conservative radio host is this powerful? The answer to that question is apparently, yes.
Via ThinkProgress:
Relentless attacks on the Chevy Volt from Rush Limbaugh and Republican politicians have taken their toll, as General Motors has announced a five-week suspension in production of the range-extended electric car. Conservative enemies of clean energy and the Obama administration seized on isolated reports Volts with battery fires, calling the cars “Obama-mandated death traps.” Limbaugh even said GM was a “corporation that’s trying to kill its customers.”
These conspiracy-tinged partisan attacks have now cost American jobs, with 1300 workers temporarily laid off in the face of lower than expected demand for the innovative cars, even as gas prices rise. In January, GM CEO Dan Akerson bemoaned the effect of the barrage of ideological criticism on the popularity of the 37–93 mpg car:
We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.
Oh, and about those attacks? After an investigation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined that the Volt is just as safe as any gasoline-powered vehicle on the road.
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And still no reporting on the green energy companies going bankrupt and laying off employees. No way would I buy a Voltron.
No it was the government forcing them to produce a shit vehicle that put them out of a job.
I had a Chevy Malibu rental a few weeks back. When I went to adjust the airflow vents in the center of the dash the adjustment tab came off in my hand. The rental was less than a year old. Very poor quality. I bet the Volt is no better, even if it does cost a lot more.
They are the ones that made it a political punching bag the second the gave Federally funded rebates just for buying one.
When the Stimulus cash was / is being used to build charging stations that no one will use, it became political.
When Obama does campaign event at the Volt factory (oh that’s right, he wasn’t really campaigning) it became a politcal issue.
And it if the POS was worth buying, people would be lining up to buy them.
It’s called “Capitalism”.
Rush is also responsible for the wilted lettuce in my salad. And the lack of croutons. That bastard.
This guy makes good sense. The “design” will not function as a car, It does work as a political punching bag.
How many Billions did this flop cost taxpayers?
I hope they saved one for president zero when he leaves office in January.
Pfft.
Give me something that will go over 25 miles on a charge, and maybe, just maybe . . .
Who wants to fuck with plugging the thing in twice a day?
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Oh yeah . . . and Rush said it was a piece of shit.
boyOboy, Rush really rakes on their last nerve.
thats a good thing.
Chevy Volt… why don’t they just give us each a donkey?
And as far as a “political” thing, I’d love to see the party affiliation of the buyers.
I’d bet 99% are DemonRats.
These days, there’s not a Republican in their right mind that would buy one of these.
I didn’t leave GM.
GM left me.
Liberals are so predictable. Anytime they back something that fails miserably, it’s always….ALWAYS the result of some nefarious right-wing plot. It couldn’t possibly be that the idea/policy they are pushing is/was fatally flawed and couldn’t survive reality…. Pathetic.
Because Liberals are “special”. Their mommies told them so…..
“Chevy Volt… why don’t they just give us each a donkey?”
Because Barry the Muzz wants us on camels?
How many Voltrons are the dealers stuck with?
Rush kills puppies. For fun. True fact, google it.
If El Rushbo is this powerful, why is Barry even running in 2012?
Rush wants to outlaw chocolate ice cream. Because he is a racist.
I can’t find a GM dealer in San Francisco.
http://local.search.yahoo.com/search?p=gm+dealerships&addr=San+Francisco+CA
Rush personally came into my house and pulled the tag off the mattresses and pillows. Then he confiscated my birth control pills and burned them in a bonfire. Because he is a bad, bad man.
It’s dead cause no one with half a brain was foolish enough to actually buy one. Oh, and by the way, where were the hoards of greenies rushing out to support their messiah’s pet project by plunking down 40+K for this marvel of eco-freindly engineering? Were they too busy contemplating their navel lint?
There will be more attacks on Rush. It’s part of the regime’s concerted effort to destroy the First Amendment.
(I’m really starting to think that the regime is behind the death of Breitbart.)
Rush is the reason my whites clothes look so dingy.
the chevy volt is a marker on their Monopolize Game board.
(and the Community Chest is stacked with Get Out of Gitmo Free cards.)
pass go and collect $2 billion dollars.
StinkProgress could probably get a job in this administration with that kind of thinking. Oh wait, they probably have a job in this administration.
@redwine
The internet is next.
No more Weasel Zippers…. a sad, sad world we’ll be living in.
Anyone here read Ameritopia?
Silly Marxists….
If the Chevy Volt was so great, nothing negative that anyone would say about it would stop people from buying it. Publicity, negative or positive, is always desirable, IF you have a good product.
A piece of crap is a piece of crap is a piece of crap……and that, dear friends, is why this piece of crap never sold !
It’s not the safety on the road anyone is worried about. It’s the fire starting in your garage while it’s charging you idiots!
The Volt should be mandated for all liberals! If you force Obamacare on me…you get the Volt!
In the story about 30% of British girls being willing to trade IQ for bigger boobs, I think maybe they have already done that except the trade was to became liberal American male journalists.
From FoxNews, GM (Obama) was expecting to sell 60,000 cars a year.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/03/02/chevy-suspends-volt-production-due-to-low-demand/
Last year they sold 8,000.
I’d like to see a breakdown of how many were private owners and institutional ones.
How many were sold in California and other Libtard hotspots?
The truth is they probably sold less than a 1000 to private owners.
That’s right dipshits. We’re adding him to our arsenal along with the hurricane, earthquake, & tornado machines. We are that much closer to ruling the world! Mwahahaha!
“Their defenses are broken, let the slaughter begin!” – Megatron
We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.
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Guess they shouldn’t have used American taxpayer dollars for their paychecks while designing it then, right?
NWMN
Exactly. The regime is speeding ahead with the destruction of the Constitution and our freedoms.
And yes, I’m in the process of reading Mark’s magnificent book, Ameritopia – an absolute must read. I’ll re-read Liberty and Tyranny after I finish Ameritopia.
BTW – Listen later to the podcast of the first hour of Mark’s show today.
Thank you Rush!!!
With a single comment you saved the American People billions of dollars.
Keep up all the great work!!!
yeah, how about those tornadoes? uh huhn.
sci fi for real.
Even a $10,000 Government/Taxpayer rebate/bribe can’t even get these clunkers off the showroom floor. Nobody ever discusses the impact of all these electric cars on an already feeble power grid, and how much to replace the batteries when they go “brick”?
Has GE taken delivery of their fleet of Voltrons?
The entire push for obama’s “the people’s car” reminds me of hitler’s VW except that was a much better car than the volt.
I’ve been meandering around Memphis this weekend and it occured to me that all these poor black people here who drive old shit cars will not be able to afford the volt, maintenance, parts, charges etc…. only a very small portion of the US population would be able to support such a stupid car.
I blame obama. But libTARDS blame Bush.
o-hole hates Rushie more than anyone.
There’s a reason he summarily announced on his 2nd day in office that the American public no longer needed to listen to him.
LOL
@Redwine
They delay mark here (Cincy) and only play his first 2 hours. Thanks to Barry I have an hour commute everyday. I download Mark’s podcast, play it at 1.7X speed and can listen to the whole show by the time I get to work.
The reason I asked about Ameritopia is that it seems like we are getting close to Thomas More’s Utopia. (funny thing, my son goes to Thomas More College)
@dapandico
They are all in Daly City and Burlingame. No room in the actually city of SF for the liberal elites to waste on a car dealer.
“We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag”….
They also didn’t design it to be a functional enjoyable car either.
Rush Limbaugh is turning UAW workers into hos and denying them condoms!
or sumthin’ like that!
Now they can put those workers on an assembly line turning out a vehicle that isn’t a total piece of overpriced shit. I wouldn’t want to work at producing a product designed to exploit the public.
o-hole can only stomp his big flat feet and whine because no one wants the coal powered rolling incinerator.
I don’t know why “He”, who can lower the oceans, and heal the planet, can’t just entice us with his dazzling smile to run out and buy one.
Certainly the God like, messianic, Lightworker is more powerful than Rush.
It’s never the central planners fault.
With their gleeful announcement that they are shutting down coal fired plants all over the country ,what do these mental midgets think you should plug your volt into,a unicorns butt? That is if you are dumb enough to buy one. I guess we will start having rolling brownouts in the new USSA. Things just keep getting better by the day(sarc).
NWMN – I don’t get Mark live out here in Greater Seattle, either. I listen over the Internet, Tune In Radio app on my phone or by podcast (phone app or Mark’s site).
We are indeed speeding toward the false totalitarian “utopia”. I would recommend reading 1984 (again). The regime’s assault on liberty is very frightening. But we must keep standing up and fighting back or we don’t stand a chance to secure liberty for our children’s future.
“We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.”
Who the fuck are they kidding here, obama has been using this car as a POLITICAL PROP for himself!
Fuck CHEVY, GM, DODGE, CHRYSLER and GMC! If anybody in the country needs to lose jobs, its the UAW! I want my HARD EARNED TAX $$$ back from these lazy ass union thugs!
The Volt is the most expensive toaster oven, ever. God Bless Rush.
Ahhhahahaha! Rush has their panties in twist all day every day.
It wasn’t until BoBo was elected that I started listening to Rush, and it’s because BoBo said I shouldn’t.
Thanks Bo.
@Laura Castellano , Rush is the reason my hair has no shine or body, glad to know I’m not the only one he’s screwing up!
@Redwine
I have 4 college age kids, they get so pissed at the liberal lectures they have to sit through.
Every 4 years we hear ‘this is the most important election of our life time.’ This time I believe it.
meet the flintstones! yabbadabba doo, barky.
how long before they are going to lease us our pcs, laptops, iphones…or…
Just found out about the Chevy Volt:
It’s only a 4 passenger car… 2 very cramped buckets seats in back.
Because theres no “engine braking” associated with gasoline motors, they require “rolling-resistant” tires to slow you down. Of course you also need to spend more energy to overcame that rolling resistance.
They get lousy gas mileage on Premium fuel.
They come with painted wheels. Metallic ones will run you $600.00.
A sound system with all the newest GPS, etc is an additional $2,000.
A Clearcoat finish paint job is an extra $1,000.
The regular charger will recharge your dead batteries in 10 hours.
The 240volt charger will do in in 4 hours, at a cost of $500 for the unit and $1,500 for the installation.
It needs a SEPARATE 240 volt breaker and hardwire line to the unit.
Rush is the reason I’m so light hearted and happy and such a beautiful person.
The only thing that can save GM is to go back to ’55 Belairs with straight 6′s and 3speeds on the column. Chrysler’s only hope is the ’60 Valiant with the slant 6 and 4spd stick (but not the left-hand lugnutz).
This is the Edsel of our time…you can’t polish a turd!
@Laura Castellano
The reason that laundry isn’t as clean as it was before, is that the EPA banned trisodium phosphate (TSP) as an ingredient in detergent. Tip: you can buy TSP is powdered form in the paint department of a hardware store. Be careful of TSP without sodium; it’s a sham.
The coal fired car
The GM ads say it is the the “car they had to build” and it probably was, maybe now they let the hostages go and try building real cars.
Does anyone know what the new GM tag line “Chevy runs deep” means? Is it deep in debt to the taxpayers? Deep in the red if you do real accounting? I mean WTF does it mean?
Don’t these idiots know that Rush will be thrilled at being given credit for such an achievement. He’ll be laughing about it for months.
Chevy fucked up.., major. They brought back a reasonable facsimile of the Camaro and that thing is selling like free samples at Sams. Instead of the “volt” why don’t they bring back, with GUSTO, the Nova, Chevelle, a REAL Malibu, El Camino, etc. Look what Dodge has pulled off with the Charger and Challenger. GM doesn’t get it so is it any wonder that Barack jumped in the front seat of a Volt?
…and how many jobs were lost because this administration halted the gulf drilling? And the XL pipeline?
They are coming after Rush big time.
Rush has NEVER been wrong. I remember his 2 books where, in Book 1, he warned us about the Clintons. Book 2 he proved right.
It’s Rush’s fault that I have a corn on my right baby toe.
God bless Rush and Mark Levin (“Ameritopa” is the next book I read).
Who remembers that Tom Petty, the rock star, had one of these inside his warehouse, where all his memorabilia was stored, until one night, when the battery caught fire, and destroyed the warehouse?????????????
This is nothing more than the Left using one of their silly blogs to try to launch a new attack at Rush now that President Algae is in the ring with him.
@Re Re
I recommend that you get started on Ameritopia right away.
You need to spread the message to as many people as possible before November.
I saw a Chevy Volt the other day at a gas station.
It reallllllllly needed a wind up key glued to its roof. I’ve also seen turtles larger than that piece of gov’t sponsored piece of crap!
I love how Drink Regress has switched to Facebook, they can’t flag commenting anymore.
It is pretty hard to listen to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and other people on the radio. I would have opinions about anyone who does.
Good grief, when will this blame game end?!.. The car was rushed through to help prez barry popularity.. And it failed, yet they want to blame others for this?!.. It’s never prez cowards fault..
Are they selling Voltrons? Cause I’ve always liked the Lion one.
They were so elated about Breitbart that they’re setting their sights on Rush.
Day-um, that Rush is powerful!
For his next trick, I hope he makes Flotsam and Possum disappear!
@Terry L Smith
That was Neil Young.
”See the USA in your Chevrolet ”
My parents had a ‘Henry J’ got 35 GPM in the 50′s what a car. Dad cussing a blue streak at ever hill … ah the good old days.
you people have to see this and make it viral
http://patdollard.com/2012/03/breaking-sandra-fluke-exposed-as-fraud-activist-possible-white-house-operative-with-video/
The groundhog didn`t see his shadow last month.
That`s also Rush`s fault.
obama:but…but…but…someone write a speech and get me a teleprompter so I can read what is really in my heart for the loss of this great vehicle.
Now for all the dumbasses that bought one of these obama losers, can you imagine trying to find parts for these pos’s in about 5 years if they will evenb last that long and knowing the way gm works now, warranty should be real exciting also. The buyers deserve what they get for having so much faith in our dear leader. I guess the sh-t headd is about 0 for 10 in his greenie business dealings with our money.
You know, I know this is not a good attitude, but really, does anybody see this as-hole getting elected again.
One thing barry, I’m sure President Bush had something to do with this so here is something else you can blame him for
remember all, when you get laid off from a uaw job it is from top down because the worker bees get 90% of thier salary for at least a year. therefore the most senior get to choose to be laid off first, the poor guy on the bottom of the list has to continue to show up(nobody in a union shop works) and continue to build this pos so ge can buy them with their tax free profits
I ‘ll bet Rush is astounded that he has so much ” power ”
The dear leader and bankroll a product with public money that the company does not want to build for a public that will not buy, BECAUSE IT IS INFERROR.
But Rush is to blame, the only thing the left has a monopoly on escuses to blame someone else for their incopetence and piss poor judgment.
Any one else would be in jail for such malfeasance.
The dear leader has not yet figured it out that the electric the Volt runs on is produced by coal fired boilers; the companies he has promised to bankrupt and provides a majority of the electricty the country uses.
Like a 25 mile range would even get you to work and back out here in West Texas. We have to use good old fashioned gasoline powered internal combustion engines to go anywhere.
They should have renamed the Volt the Torch.
Thinkprogress must consist of the collage intelletiual knownothings who their they know everything but dont
If Rush deserves any blame whatsoever, its because he didn’t want to keep promoting GM products on his radio show.
Good for him.
Oh sure, this colossal flop of a death trap is the fault of Rush Limbaugh. As if the targeted market, upscale 1%er commies, would ever soil their tender ears by listening to El Rushbo, but they just know its all his doing.
A $41,000 cigarette lighter that can run over children and puppies.
Does anyone remember cash for clunkers? Obama and the liberals should really stay out of the auto industry, actually all of the free-market. They don’t know what they are doing. The funny thing is people still support this guy. Americans are really stupid people.
1) Cash for clunkers – Cost us, the taxpayer, billions. Result destroyed the used car industry.
2) GM takeover – Cost us,the taxpayer billions. Result create a vehicle that is a pos that NOONE in their right mind would want and then blame Limbaugh for the 1,300 people lay-off.
What about blaming Obama for the 20,000 plus job destroyer with the axe on the keystone oil pipeline. Oh, and by the way, even he’s destroying our currency and making it worthless, drilling for more oil would bring the price down. Can you believe Diesel is at 4 bucks again and its construction season. Thanks Obama for your wonderful energy policies. We will remember you in november you jerk-off…..
I’d be happy to take one off their hands if they raised the subsidy to equal the list price.
Texasron says:
March 3, 2012 at 9:44 am
I’d be happy to take one off their hands if they raised the subsidy to equal the list price.
You might want to get an extra kicker for the flame retardant suit you need to wear to drive it safely.
I hear Chevy is coming up with a new line: the Chevy Slut. Owners demand someone else pays for the gas.
President Obama tells UAW workers that he will be buying a Chevy Volt when he leaves office in five years and just days later GM suspends production due to slow sales.
At the same time this same “Green” President is otherwise willing to keep Air Force One in the air to watch a basketball game between the NY Knicks and Miami Heat.
Now that seems like a waste of gas to me but then again I am not the King!
Read the article at The Political Commentator here: http://bit.ly/AgLa1L
I’m saving my money to buy the first truly GREEN car, the one powered by pond scum.
How many Volts would have been sold without a rebate offered?
How many Volts would have been purchased if cities weren’t buying them for their employees?
GM sold out to the government and I’ll never buy another GM. I’ll ride a horse before I will allow the government mandate what car I have to purchase.
andycanuck says:
March 3, 2012 at 10:00 am
Most excellent! LOLOL
Back some years ago NBC was cuaght red handed faking a truck explosion and fire on GM truck someone however blew the whistle on NBC and they got in BIG TROUBLE But unlike with the GM TRUCK incedent THIS IS REAL
I have a thought ya’ll – quit believing everything this administration puts out – they have no benefical policies to stand on. They are trying to bring this country to it’s knees – will we let this happen??
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and decent fellow humans everywhere, including the womb.
New Gov’t Motors slogan……..
The Chevy Volt: Burning Up Roads All Over America!
@andycanuck:
Hey, why not? So thank you, Rush, for the halting of production of a car that will burst into flames upon tapping the bumper.
Once obama gets his way and there will be no more gasoline and all the coal fired electric plants are gone then where will we be.
Better to design a car to run on bullshit and corporate lies, what does the volt cost to charge, how long is the battery goog for and what does it cost to replace?
I have never seen one towing a small boat.
The biggest coordinated media firestorm in history against an auto mfg (runaway Toyotas) was not enough to dent Camry sales, but we’re to believe Rush Limbaugh single handedly took down the Volt. They would love you to believe that. Everytime they say it, throw that Toyota debacle in their face and have them explain it. Toyota was demonized by the press and th Govt. The Volt has been coddled by the press and the Govt. WTF!?