Now I’m just waiting for Bob to drop off the mule for me to get some test miles on it .. yeah I wish.

Thanks! I also signed the petition!

http://pluginpartners.com/whatYouCanDo/onlinePetition.cfm

Thank you. I signed the petition too.

Kevin R., #32:

Well said. God’s honest truth.

When we as voters get energized enough and no longer complacent, things can change. Push your friends and others to vote.

“Don’t complain about the way things are running in this country if you didn’t vote or don’t plan to. If you don’t vote, you get what you deserve in your political leaders and their policies. Vote. It’s that important!” Kevin R

My yearly income is $27,000/yr therefor I have more wealth then 75% of the world.

Henry Ford raised his workers wages to the unheard of $5 a day in the early 1920’s. He knew that putting more money in their pockets would allow them to have the ability to purchase one of his cars and other consumer products (the other reason was to keep them from leaving the production lines as the work was tedious and many left for other jobs).

There is a direct connection between Americans’ ability to purchase cars and other items here in 2008 as there was in the 1920’s. As American’s incomes increased in the 1920’s the economy boomed. Americans purchased more and more of the new products coming out at this time. In fact, the radio benefited from American’s new purchasing power. The radio became the number one selling consumer electronics device of all time. So many were sold in such a short period of time that its record wasn’t busted until the DVD player was introduced in the mid 1990’s.

Anyway I digress, corporations here in America have been so hell-bent on laying off workers to boost profits that they are cutting off the very consumers that purchase their products.

I would hope that our corporations would get a clue that their very survival long-term depends on good wages, secure jobs, and adequate profits for themselves. Obscene profits is unreasonable and unsustainable. This practice of doing the work here at home, investing in the cities and states in which they reside, and offering good, middle class wages is guaranteed to make their products available to vast numbers of Americans, most of whom would prefer to purchase products produced here in the states.

If our corporations do not take on this stance and continue to move production off shore, their very existence is certainly not guaranteed as few Americans will be able to purchase their products.

I am buying a Volt in its first production run. I want one for several reasons; to break our dependence on foreign oil, put more money in my pocket, help clean up our air and environment, and support GM, a Michigan and U.S. corporation.

“Tim, why isn’t it reasonable to assume car prices act like computers? Technology improves, prices should drop.”

I’ll probably go to hell for saying this but… Computers aren’t assembled by the UAW.

How about a GM-Volt.com based petition, for starters. Could they dream up some sort of a link we could use to e-mail our US Reps and Senators? How about showing us who the power players on this issue are in Congress so we can lobby them? State government?”

The California Air Resources Board has a public meeting on February 28th. I guess I would be just another ranting jerk if I didn’t get off my a** and participate. I plan on going. Maybe there will be something worth reporting back on.

I also signed the petition:
http://pluginpartners.com/whatYouCanDo/onlinePetition.cfm