“We should put more Americans to work building clean-energy facilities,” Barack boomed last night. “You can see the results of last year’s investments in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1,200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries.”
Not according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Against its politically correct instincts, the IEEE was forced to “cast stones at a wide selection of … poorly conceived technology projects.” One of these was Government Motors’ Chevrolet Volt, a car known as a plug-in hybrid because it will get most of its power from the wall socket in a garage.”
You see, unless the Big O issues a mandate compelling Americans to purchase the commie car, the Volt won’t be making money.
“The first year’s volume, by GM’s own calculations, is 10,000 units, and you can’t save a company with that. That’s chicken feed.” Or, as Johan de Nysschen, the president of Audi of America put it: “There are not enough idiots who will buy it.” These vehicles, ventured de Nysschen, are “for the intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are.”
— Ilana Mercer, Jan. 29 WorldNetDaily column