What the Chevy Volt Will (and Won't) Do For GM

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WE NEED TO STOP BUYING FOREIGHN CARS AND START BUYING MORE AMERICAN. CHEVY IS COMING OUT WITH SOME GREAT CARS THAT ARE EVEN BETTER THEN THE OVERSEA CAR MAKERS. ITS A GOOD THING THAT USA BAILED OUT CHEVY BECAUSE IF WE HADNT THEN THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER BIG MANUFACTURE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GONE FROM AMERICA. MORE AMERICAN CARS WE BUY THE MORE OUT ECONOMY WILL IMPROVE BECAUSE IT WILL BRING IN MONEY TO AMERICAN CORPORTATIONS AND NOT JAPANESE CORP.

MIKE of NJ 11:21AM December 24, 2010

Yeah Utliity, let's keep slurping on the middle east oil tit keeping us hostage to every Muslim radicals whim. Go nuclear, natural gas and CLEAN coal and the problem is solved. The federal government (in bed with your "free market banks" and oil) has been involved in every national energy and transportation decision made since 1776. Get out of your bunker, turn off Fox, and embrace the new utopia, the non-government version.

Dave56 of GA 9:13AM December 23, 2010

hello
I think more double sense make america general motors, improve to volt electric range, keep clean air in calif, but truck and train are not clean air,, cause smog,,is diesel arent good, I dont like diesel inside dirty motor, ugly, and volt is bestest cool, we need to smart budget for own living and electric full and drive so easy , and small gas tank, that nice, that one valve volt car is bigger improve , perfect , but I cant buy it my fanicanal too ties, and budget is need clear 3 yrs 7mon, and retire, then buy it new volt car, and my old car will throw away, junk ,, that it

ORESTES DELGADO of CA 11:11AM December 21, 2010

GM "Gov'ment Motors" is trying to provide the dream of it's owners.
Americans and the rest of humanity will adopt better technology as soon as it becomes affordable.
Right now...it just isn't so and killing American enterprise and free will isn't helping. I've seen several studies on exactly how "green" electrics really are and they fail next to a full size Hummer in terms of their overall Carbon footprint.
We'll get where we need to be eventually but not under the current Government mandated direction...ONLY under good old-fashioned
FREE ENTERPRISE ingenuitity and self-reliance.

Chris Petty of GA 2:28AM December 21, 2010

As the great Milton Friedman said, government can not create a market... What is the distance traveled in high heat requiring an air conditioner... or freezing cold. thus it will fail or merit. The promises of false government utopia. No thanks Oblowmo.

Alger of NJ 9:32AM December 20, 2010

I think the Volt represents the beginning of the end of America's dependence of foreign oil and we can thank General Motors. Within 10 years the Volt electric range will likely double much like the jump from the GM Ev1 to where we are today with the Volt. Within 20 years gasoline won't be way we power the majority of our cars thanks to GM.
Great job GM! You do America proud.
Don

Don D of MA 10:55AM December 18, 2010

No thanks, I'll stay with my diesel powered Jetta.
$15k battery packs not to mention a $41k price tag, doesn't really make it an affordable car for the masses. Toyota and it's followers thought the Prius was going to be the Messiah of the automobile industry, and Chevy is looking to do the same. I just can't see it happening.
GM as well as the other US auto manufacturers lost support from the American during the bailout fiasco. I just can't see buying another new car from the US manufacturers. Used,maybe but new-no.
Drop the stranglehold of the UAW from your companies and you may come out on top in the long run

Danny of FL 2:27AM December 18, 2010