How Not To Drive Around Town…

Is he skilled? Sure. Is he a danger to everyone around him? Yup.

The Deadbeat of America

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general motors, tarp

GM Headed For Bankruptcy Again.

According to Forbes, Government Motors is headed back to bankruptcy with the speed of a new Camaro, leaving us all on the hook for $16 billion, thanks to the half a billion shares the feds still own.

You didn’t do that…someone else made that happen!

 

How Long Does That New Fuel Efficient Car Take to Pau Itself Off?

They’re only comparing a model to its more gas-loving equivalent. It’s pretty obvious, for instance, that a new Prius is going to save you a pantload compared to a Ford F150 (not just in gas but in original cost.) Of course, you can’t cary a quarter ton of mulch in a Prius. Or go down that nasty dirt road to your farm in rural New Mexico where the occasional rain creates massive run off channels, but around town..?

Your still better off with a motorscooter or motorcycle.

So, How’s That Bailout Working For You…France?

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general motors, peugeot

Yup, a lot of that cash the Obama administration is pissing away. There was the $20 billion to Petrobras in Brazil so that they could steal away American offshore oil production. Now we find out General Motors, home to the Volt and recipient of massive bailout funds from the government, has blown $400 million to buy into Peugeot in France — a “business” that’s losing $123 million this last year alone and just got junk status from Moodys.

Sounds like a great investment, GM. (Better than Opel, at $700 million in losses.)

Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You…If You Can Get It Started

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fisker karma

Yup — another friggin’ green energy boondoggle on display: the $390 million we’ve spilled down Fisker Automotive (and worse, their now bankrupt battery supplier A123) has led to a $109,000 sports car that Consumer Reports couldn’t even get through the check in inspection.

“We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.”

 

Spread it Around:

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chevy volt, government incompetence

President Obama wants to bump the Chevy Vlt subsidy up to $10,000, once again completely missing the point of supply and demand in market economics. No one wants this pig but European car mags. Even the environuts aren’t buying them.

How ’bout Another Half a Billion Green Energy Boondoggle?

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auto bailouts, electric cars, fisker, government corruption, screwing the american people blind

Shock and dismay — another shining light of the green energy movement is heading rapidly toward the drain. This time it’s Fisker, maker of super-expensive boutique electric cars. I know it’s a shock, but apparently nobody but the wealthy environuts want to shell out $104,000 for a car that can’t touch the overall performance of even something like the Audi R8 or a Corvette ZR1. Even with their pathetic gas mileage, they can still go further than the Fisker can on a full charge.

So what is a company receiving massive cash infusions from the US government to do? How about fire American workers and move all their production to Finland?

Bad Day At the Rally Track

After two days without internet access thanks to the new neighbor and his front-of-Home-Depot “construction crew” cutting the lines to the neighborhood, I’m back online.

Here’s a palette cleanser.

This strangely does not lessen my desire to do the Baja one of these days.

Indiana Bans Texting While Driving…but Surfing the Web? That’s Okay.

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idiots, texting while driving

You know…there was a time, not so long ago, when people had enough common sense to not do stuff like this. Texting, surfing the web, hell…talking on the damned phone while piloting a 2 ton bullet. Not that it matters — the police don’t enforce these laws and drivers just do more idiotic things like hold the phone lower, so they have to look down to read/response to their message — none of which are so important they can’t wait until you get where your f#$king going!

If you’re ne of these morons, please — have an accident where you are horribly disabled. Better yet, to save others, shoot yourself.