You could not be more wrong.

Your idea that people do not buy products – and cars – based on cost is absurd. What we are discussing here is not about driving a Prius, it is about saving GM using the argument that the Volt could avert GM’s course.

If cost does not matter when buying a car why don’t you buy a Tesla and just abandon the Volt for good?

Moreover, just wait until the Asians start the competition against the volt selling plug-in cars under $25K and your bailout money to GM will be lost for good.

GM is rotten from from the core. Rick, Lutz, Fritz, and all the idiots at the top who destroyed GM over the years need to be fired ASAP. With no golden parachute.

Giving money to these boneheads is like giving crack to a crack whore.

Then there is the huge gulf between what Obama and main-stream Democrats are proposing and socialism when it comes to how they think the markets should operate. It is only Socialism to people who think that only 19th century/early 20th century-style lazzaie-faire capitalism counts as capitalism. Lazzaie-faire capitalism has failed, repeatedly, over the last 20 decades.

‘Freefall bankruptcy in the next few weeks would throw the broader economy into chaos, costing the economy 2.5 million jobs at its peak impact in summer 2010 and pushing the unemployment rate to a depression-like near 11%.’

— Mark Zandi, chief economist for Economy.com