* ONE TRILLION *
bucks of our cash over to the eastern oil centers per year,

it is indeed extremely wise to generously fund

* AT LEAST SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION *

bucks per year if need be in order to get the costs down for
the A123 packs and other new Volt technologies, thus;

getting the Volt sales price down, (so more can buy it),
getting jobs returned to the USA,
getting a modest or slight or even “NO”
return on the investment in as far as interest
accrual would be concerned, would be pennies
compared to all the jobs and new household incomes
which this green evolution is certainly going to bring.

This isn’t hard math, it is first grade elementary school arithmetic. There is just no valid argument whatsoever in
not *COMPLETELY*
funding all aspects of the green motoring evolution. This ought to be really crystal clear to everyone by now it seems to me.
Apparently, the best thing for nay-saying is to carefully reflect on what other unrelated thing causes these residual skeptical subconscious energies, because all these really great things are

*IN PROCESS PRODUCTION RIGHT NOW*

The next 18 months will be gone before you know it.

While economizing where you can regarding discretionary spending to work on our positioning to get a Volt, keep in mind that those very simple things that you must do for the preventive maintenance on your current auto must not be delayed by any excessive mileage because your trade-in or resale values will undo lots of your efforts in the meantime. Problems can not be hidden whatsoever from the very powerful scan systems that plug into your vehicle today, and they most certainly do not get “erased” by “clearing codes”. Having someone to charge you money to “turn the check engine light off” is a certain, complete and silly waste of your money. Borrow to have the vehicle diagnosed and repaired correctly in the first place. (Yes, some secondary tests will be able to then run and also result in the resetting of the light, but that means that the problem went on too long before you were able to deal with the first problem).
Replacing transmission fluid , coolant, and proactively replacing the 12 volt battery after the third summer (in the South), are very, VERY smart things to have done to help maintain your values when its time to get a Volt. (PLEASE! DO NOT LET ANYONE PUT GREASE BETWEEN THE BATTERY POST AND THE TERMINAL CLAMP! Starter motor retraction surge voltage (90volts!!) needs to be absorbed by a good battery, and Controller-area-network processors will have software disruption, and one end of the battery will be “boiled-over” due to more resistance at one post or the other).
Thanks for considering my post.
Dan Petit Austin Tx.

so may you drown in massive debts A123. good riddens

I know that some green solutions depend on the oil price to be practical and to have profit.

In some kind of way i would like that the gas prices went up again. Not for that you couldn’t afford it anymore but.. For technology.

If people get cornered people get ideas. When a barrel was 150 dollar or so… i wished it would go up =D that was not a joke. Because in those day’s i could only read about people getting ideas and more people looked into the green side of life

But as everybody knows.. this low gas price is just temporary.
OPEC soon closes down oil exports to gain more profit etc etc.

I just want a barrol price of arround 100 dollar it’s not that much and it good for other technology’s to evolve mature and profitable..

And, if it works, it’ll solve several problems at once.

#41 Kent – the fact that there are still people who think the way you do proves that everything is possible. Do you honestly believe that we can have a successful country where the only thing we do is change each other’s bedpans?