Comments on: GM CEO Rick Wagoner Tells Obama About the Chevy Volt and Gives Financial Assurances

By: mac

mac — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:42:09 +0000

Hydrogen is yesterday, Unless Stan Meyers work is taken to the next level providing hydrogen at the pumps is a joke. Still producing a lot of greenhouse gases, just stuffing it into the ground to become our childrens problem will we never learn from past mistakes?

Stans vision would still be my 1st hope, but failing that EV is the way of the future.. Charge your car or free from solar cells on your roof, top up battery with solar panels on vehicle it self while parked.. why would you ever want to remain shackled to the pump, be it gassoline or hydrogen?

By: j man

j man — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:11:03 +0000

You better run for congress then, thats the only way you will have contol over your taxes and where they go.

By: M1EK

M1EK — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:09:51 +0000

Morgan, I don’t want my tax dollars going to a company who threw away the last batch of money on publicity stunts so they could keep building SUVs. Very simple, really.

By: j man

j man — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:29:03 +0000

I wonder if anyone from the soon to be idled/closed GM plant in Pittsburgh was at this meeting?

By: William

William — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:29:07 +0000

Its great to see that Mr. Obama who has always had concerns about our country’s dependence on oil, engaged in what will be a important first step for our transportation future. Something that George Bush had no concern with and John McBush is only giving lip service to. Thumbs up to GM with the Chevy Volt.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:03:54 +0000

M1EK;

Disregarding your other commentary you are actually dead wrong on bankruptcy halting the Volt plans. See, the Volt is actually a winner, or could be a winner, winners=profit. Bankruptcy Restructuring forces a company to jettison unprofitable positions (Buick, GMC, Hummer, GMAC, Pontiac) while keeping profitable ones (Chevy Opel etc) and profitable research (EREV)

It also removes contract and retirement benefits obligations.

Why are you here if you want everything to be so disastrous? Are you a paid shill for someone?

By: nasaman

nasaman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:31:24 +0000

130 Gary…..
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! I’ve spent time & made friends in 25 other countries and I can say without fear of contradiction that North Americans are unequivocally the most cynical, negative and prone-to-complain of ANY people I’ve ever met —ANYWHERE!

It breaks my heart, because as you say, “Pessimism and self-loathing will inflict far more damage to a society than bombs ever could”!

The Chevy Volt in particular —and the electrification of the automobile in general— are, after all, hopeful, upbeat, positive, commendable pursuits, right? So lets back off on the negativism ….at least here at gm-volt.com, OK?!?!?!

By: M1EK

M1EK — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:19:47 +0000

Morgan, yep, I think GM’s a goner, unless they sucker the government into an ill-advised bailout. Hence “ability or desire”. Bankruptcy would make them unable to go forward with the Volt in anything but the most optimistic scenarios; I’m still not sure they really _want_ to otherwise given how much BS you’re hearing here from people who are repeating old spin about how hybrids are dead-ends. (making the fairly warranted assumption that the commenters here are fairly representative of the GM party line).

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:59:35 +0000

111 Statik:

Yes, I am truly interested in why you are on this message board. Although it’s great that you are being realistic/practical (like I am), all the excessive negativeness is annoying. Without writing a novel, I’ll just say I used to have several co-workers who were always being negative and tried to find faults with others and make them look bad, and it sucked the energy right out of me to the point that I wanted to quit. Now that they are gone, I have to see that my outlook on like truly looks brighter.

Food for thought: I remember once reading a comment regarding negativity in the media on the state of the economy and all, and it went something like “Pessimism and self-loathing will inflict far more damage to a society than bombs ever could.” This negativity makes people get all apathetic about where Canadian/American society is going, and makes them lose the drive to be competitive in the world marketplace.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:53:24 +0000

M1EK:

That is certainly a possibility. Do you acknowledge it is almost a certainty that GM will go bankrupt?