I saw my first Chevy Volt commercial on TV today. I don’t remember much about it because it was gone before I realized what I had seen. That may be the fate of the car itself.
Back in March I wrote about the Volt (The Miracle Car Nobody Wants) and again in September (Timing Is Everything). Then General Motors was planning to build 15,000 in 2011. That number was since revised to 10,000 but the sales figures for the year missed that target too. By the end of November only 6,142 Volts had sold.
But apparently it’s worse than even that, since quite a few of that number have been sales to Federal and local government agencies or fleet sales to companies like General Electric, which is making the charging stations for the Volt and whose CEO is an Obama adviser.
So basically, we the taxpayers, have paid for the Volt twice: first in the bailout of GM and then through purchases made by the government and it’s crony capitalists to prop up sales.
It is becoming apparent that, in spite of cheerleading by the Obama administration and non-stop emoting about the Environment from Hollywood, Americans are not as enthusiastic about “Green” energy as we might have thought. The serial bankruptcies of “Green” companies the Obama administration has loaned money to can hardly be misinterpreted: there is very little marketplace demand for these products (see “It’s ALL Solar Power“).
