Comments on: Congressman Jay Inslee on the Status of Plug-in Vehicle Tax Credits http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/ Real-time news, information, and discussion about the Chevrolet Volt. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Oakley http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-31108 Tim Oakley Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:00:37 +0000 http://www.gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-31108 Wake up america, tax credits,(Incentives,...) fed. funding grants for research (on existing products) with no returns expected, will have to end. Pure research is worth the effort (space program cir. 60's). Advanced materials were the result. Can you say: Electronics, glass ware, biomed. inst.. We are being mis-led by "Industry", remember: crashworthiness standards (passenger compartment penetration, etc.) seatbelts, catalytic converters, airbags. All mandated as with a time limit for introduction in new vehicles. California's ZEV was designed with an existing vehicle (EV-1) not vaporware. We are innovators, give us a problem to solve it will happen. GM used faulty batteries in gen.1 (delco's), then Ovonics in gen.2 (50 mile range with short lived batt.s to 120 mile range with -> 10 year life). EX; Toyota Rav4-EV has a 100,000 mile club ( the few that did not get crushed). Federal reg.s should specify this as a min. in 2 years with a penalty of $xx per vehicle after due date. CAFE should be 40 mpg by 2020 cars, light trucks 30 mpg, heavy vehicles are already good but can get better (owners look at operating costs as well as purchase price). It is possible. We are addicted to OIL (have you seen GM tv commercial with the fuel logo's about a car that does not exist.) I support buy american in this order (US co. mfr.d in US, US co for. mfr.d). My next vehicle will be 100% electric, I wish for US co. I have sent Email to Ford ( I own 2 Ford vehicles purch. new) stating this. I liked GM's EV-1. I tell auto sales people this when i see them. I tell Citizens everywhere Buy US first (where will you work while you pay for that foreign item) Electric vehicles are possible, See: Tesla, Tzero, Solectria (they ran from boston to NY city on one charge in //'94) small co.'s making a difference, large co.' selling more SUV.s. I wait for the VOLT (large batt.s, they are out there. ), or another US vehicle. But if I have to I will convert one of my own. I have already converted my housboat. 2mpg -> 33 mpg eq. Thank you for listening. Wake up america, tax credits,(Incentives,…) fed. funding grants for research (on existing products) with no returns expected, will have to end. Pure research is worth the effort (space program cir. 60′s). Advanced materials were the result. Can you say: Electronics, glass ware, biomed. inst.. We are being mis-led by “Industry”, remember: crashworthiness standards (passenger compartment penetration, etc.) seatbelts, catalytic converters, airbags. All mandated as with a time limit for introduction in new vehicles. California’s ZEV was designed with an existing vehicle (EV-1) not vaporware. We are innovators, give us a problem to solve it will happen. GM used faulty batteries in gen.1 (delco’s), then Ovonics in gen.2 (50 mile range with short lived batt.s to 120 mile range with -> 10 year life). EX; Toyota Rav4-EV has a 100,000 mile club ( the few that did not get crushed). Federal reg.s should specify this as a min. in 2 years with a penalty of $xx per vehicle after due date. CAFE should be 40 mpg by 2020 cars, light trucks 30 mpg, heavy vehicles are already good but can get better (owners look at operating costs as well as purchase price). It is possible. We are addicted to OIL (have you seen GM tv commercial with the fuel logo’s about a car that does not exist.) I support buy american in this order (US co. mfr.d in US, US co for. mfr.d). My next vehicle will be 100% electric, I wish for US co. I have sent Email to Ford ( I own 2 Ford vehicles purch. new) stating this. I liked GM’s EV-1. I tell auto sales people this when i see them. I tell Citizens everywhere Buy US first (where will you work while you pay for that foreign item) Electric vehicles are possible, See: Tesla, Tzero, Solectria (they ran from boston to NY city on one charge in //’94) small co.’s making a difference, large co.’ selling more SUV.s. I wait for the VOLT (large batt.s, they are out there. ), or another US vehicle. But if I have to I will convert one of my own. I have already converted my housboat. 2mpg -> 33 mpg eq. Thank you for listening.

]]> By: Jim I http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30990 Jim I Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:55:10 +0000 http://www.gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30990 Car salesmen try to sell you what they have on the lot, so they get their commission now. If they have to order you a car, then they have to wait to get paid. They really do not care what you want, they just have to close the sale ASAP. Car salesmen try to sell you what they have on the lot, so they get their commission now.

If they have to order you a car, then they have to wait to get paid.

They really do not care what you want, they just have to close the sale ASAP.

]]> By: Need My Volts Now http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30988 Need My Volts Now Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:28:12 +0000 http://www.gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30988 I would love to see a substantial tax credit on the Volt but chances are there will be a little one that will hardly make a difference. I also think GM will again shoot itself in the foot again by dragging its feet and let several other foreign car manufactures deliver the working plug in cars to the American public NEXT YEAR. By the time 2011 comes rolling around the market will be saturated by the other brands that it will not have a long production life. Why you ask--- GM has this absurd belief that the American Car Buyer does not want something economical or environmentally sound. My last attempt to purchase a hybrid Vue at a Saturn dealership was quite interesting. The sales man did everything he could to talk me out of the hybrid Vue, telling me it is not worth it and I really would not get the benefit of the Hybrid unless I was going to keep it for more than a few years. I told Him that is what I really wanted and he told me that the gas mileage really was not that much of a difference from the regular gas engine. I then went to a Chevy dealership and pretty much heard the same story with one exception that the hybrid I was looking at was a Yukon and even with it being a hybrid the actual gas mileage wasn’t any better than 20 at best. HELLLO GM I am looking for 30+ MPG. There is a very limited array of GM cars that get that kind of gas mileage. If the VOLT were out now I would have three of them sitting in my driveway. I would love to see a substantial tax credit on the Volt but chances are there will be a little one that will hardly make a difference. I also think GM will again shoot itself in the foot again by dragging its feet and let several other foreign car manufactures deliver the working plug in cars to the American public NEXT YEAR. By the time 2011 comes rolling around the market will be saturated by the other brands that it will not have a long production life. Why you ask— GM has this absurd belief that the American Car Buyer does not want something economical or environmentally sound. My last attempt to purchase a hybrid Vue at a Saturn dealership was quite interesting. The sales man did everything he could to talk me out of the hybrid Vue, telling me it is not worth it and I really would not get the benefit of the Hybrid unless I was going to keep it for more than a few years. I told Him that is what I really wanted and he told me that the gas mileage really was not that much of a difference from the regular gas engine. I then went to a Chevy dealership and pretty much heard the same story with one exception that the hybrid I was looking at was a Yukon and even with it being a hybrid the actual gas mileage wasn’t any better than 20 at best. HELLLO GM I am looking for 30+ MPG. There is a very limited array of GM cars that get that kind of gas mileage. If the VOLT were out now I would have three of them sitting in my driveway.

]]> By: Mark Bartosik http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30973 Mark Bartosik Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:55:30 +0000 http://www.gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30973 Clarification: The $4000, that Jay Inslee talks of was in the 2007 Energy bill, and republicans in the Senate sold that out (as well as solar and wind tax credits) in favor of oil exploration tax credits. Jay's bill has a $3000 credit. However, it is not so easy for less senior members of Congress to get bills passed. So don't hold your breath for that to get passed. Clarification:

The $4000, that Jay Inslee talks of was in the 2007 Energy bill, and republicans in the Senate sold that out (as well as solar and wind tax credits) in favor of oil exploration tax credits.

Jay’s bill has a $3000 credit. However, it is not so easy for less senior members of Congress to get bills passed. So don’t hold your breath for that to get passed.

]]> By: Steve Holtzclaw http://gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30948 Steve Holtzclaw Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:28:37 +0000 http://www.gm-volt.com/2008/02/12/congressman-jay-inslee-on-the-status-of-plug-in-vehicle-tax-credits/#comment-30948 As a 2 time Honda Insight and current Prius owner and recipient of several previous tax incentives, I can attest that I would never have left "Buying American" if the less than intelligent leadership of US auto manufacturers had listened to our pleas earlier. I will buy a Volt sight unseen as soon as it becomes available. While tax incentives are welcome, I would much rather see the entire tax code thrown out along with the unconstitutional legislators that use taxes to manipulate our activities. Fair Tax 2008 .... go, go, go. As a 2 time Honda Insight and current Prius owner and recipient of several previous tax incentives, I can attest that I would never have left “Buying American” if the less than intelligent leadership of US auto manufacturers had listened to our pleas earlier. I will buy a Volt sight unseen as soon as it becomes available. While tax incentives are welcome, I would much rather see the entire tax code thrown out along with the unconstitutional legislators that use taxes to manipulate our activities. Fair Tax 2008 …. go, go, go.

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