Chevy Volt a Failure - GM to Layoff 1,300

Weirdly, no. The two on the lead motorcycle are Nancy Pelosi and Deepak Chopra. Go figure.

 

I wonder how much technology there would be in the world if the first generations of the technology were required to show a profit immediately?

 

Oh, there'd be none. We'd still be living in caves. Thankfully, we can always count on politicians, bureaucrats and labor organizers to lift us out of the dark ages.

 

A car for the 1 % ers. A way for America to give back in return for their increased tax dollars.

 

If you've been successful you didn't get there on your own.

 

300 miles of all-electric driving on a single charge sounds an awful lot like a battery/battery management breakthrough to me.

 

In the wild west days the cowboys would give their horses a sugar cube to get 300 miles out of them.

 

The Pony Express was put out of business by the transcontinental telegraph. Which was funded by a government contract to Western Union.

 

To put a fine point on it, that's when Well Fargo moved into banking so they could get a Government bailout.

 

And that, children, is why sugar cubes cost $3700 each in the old west. Good night.

 

Yup, when gold went bust the speculators moved into sugar futures and ran the price up.