General
Motors suspended production for five weeks of its dream green machine, the
Chevrolet Volt, and let go 1,300 workers in Detroit. Why? The dream is
shattering, it appears.
“Even
with sales up in February over January, we are still seeking to align our production
with demand,” said one GM spokesman. That’s code for: We would go out of
business except for a huge government push to succeed.
This,
from a March 2 UPI story: “The company reported it has sold 1,626 Volts this
year -- 1,023 in February. GM sold 7,671 Volts in 2011, short of its stated goal
of 10,000, the newspaper said. Plans previously had called for production of
60,000 Volts this year, 45,000 of them set aside for the U.S. market.”
In
the face of even more failure, the company has now set its sights on the West
-- the Golden State of taxpayer subsidies, the safe haven for all-things green.
“The
company is gearing up production for California, where the car qualifies for a
$1,500 state rebate and has been granted access to the carpool lanes on state
highways even with just one occupant in the car,” UPI reported.
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