Bob Lutz is such a comedian. That was some crazy funny $H!T. Watch out Bob Faget, oops Saget.

Wise man Murphy said “believe 50% of what you see and none what you hear or read”. When I see Volt in Chevy showroom for 38K with range of 60 mi on electricity alone, I’ll somewhat believe it. Right now, it’’s nice to hear that Lutz is still passing gas and jokes.

“Lutz drives Lithium-ion mule..” Is this why GM is buying a NiMH battery maker?? We won’t see lithium for some time…only NiMH for now I predict. Get ready for a delay due to the batteries.

I thought it was 40 miles on electricity alone.

I still don;t understand Lutz’s excitement: he spends most of him time in golf cart - what’s the difference?

^^^^^^ Well you spend most of your time on your knees so….

^^^^^^^^Taking care of your sister’s needs with help of your momma

Woaahhhhh, could you be anymore original? Hope your wife doesn’t find out or someone’s sleeping outside tonight.

Honestly, it wasn’t original and I should ignore idiotic remark from a known degenerate. My apologies.

Gentlemen, Gentlemen… Ahem.. Thank you. Anyways “Lutz realized as he passed gas station with $4 a gallon fuel on his way to the Milford proving grounds just how important the Volt is to America” He should have realized that a lot sooner than that. But good to see that the Volt is finally getting on track.

You guys are too funny. Perhaps we should all start the day with a hit of Vancouver’s finest to mellow the festivities somewhat.

jdasch1: looks to me like GM is following Toyotas lead and plans on offering both types of batteries in the short and long term.

“He loved the instant torque of the electric motor, but lamented the fact that there was no roar of an internal combustion engine”

Personally I’ve always HATED the noise from gas engines. As far as I’m concerned tires are too noisy. I know I’m a very small minority in this. I just never have gotten the fascination and appear of loud cars. I didn’t put playing cards in the spokes of my bicycle either.

Out of curiosity, where does most of the US electricity come from?

yes you are in the very LOW minority here, how can you hate to hear a gas engine? and TIRES are too noisy? are you kidding me, what kind of stripped out car do you drive? tires only make noise if the road is broken up or pot holes are all over the place like pimples on a hookers a$$- even when this car is built i’m sure you Sabon will complain once you get run over by a Volt and complain you didn’t hear the car coming since there was no engine noise and the tires didn’t make enough noise either for your satisfaction……… and Jay Leno’s chin owns all

Deanster: Coal. It’s dirt cheap and, while dirty, is a lot cleaner to burn than most people realize. That’s followed by Nuclear and Natural Gas (most is Domestic, some is foreign-sourced).

I’m about as tired of hearing about the volt as I am the Camaro. And Deanster, ya, I’m sure some people see electricity as this magical thing that comes out of a plug in their wall. No regard to how it’s actually created. None the less, I feel having different types cars (hybrid, flexfuel, hydrogen, etc.) should be a good thing. Less reliance on one particular fuel/source to power them. Also varying degrees of pollution for the different types.

Hydrogen is never going to happen. Flexfuel/e85 is already dead; someone finally did the math and figured out that turning corn into fuel is an absolutely idiotic waste of resources (and that the entire crop of corn made in the US turned into ethanol would make less than 12% of US fuel demands for that year.) Electric is going to be the only alternative to gasoline and diesel.

Hope it comes in under $40,000 like they said it would or it will fail pretty badly.

1. Ethanol can be produced from sugar, algae, and other things. These will supplant corn as a source (see Brazil).
2. Hydrogen will happen. The Govmnt has to ensure the infrastructure will be in place first. (how about instead of a windfall profits tax on oil companies we force them to put Hydrogen Pumps at all their stations?) The vehicles are already in use.

You’re welcome.

To hell with corn squeezin’s! If not that new fangled algae stuff I want hydrogen!!! And I want the infrastructure controlled by the federal government like it is in other countries! Leave the greedy ass corporations COMPLETELY OUT of it! But we know that won’t happen because the damn rebuplicans won’t miss out on a chance to get some kick backs!

Hurry up already!

Yeah, because Democrats never recieve kickbacks DialM4Speed. You really think politicians in either party are that different from each other?

Yes electricity magically comes out of the wall.

Another place it can come from is solar panels that you can install on the roof of your house and charge up your electric car.

If you put a few more of them on your house, and LOCK IN your costs for electricity, as electricity goes up in price you won’t have to worry about it. You’ll be powering your electric car and at least part of your house with your solar panels. Even in the cloudy Seattle this is VERY effective. Not as effective as sunny places but you would be surprised.

The environment is only a side benefit here. Why chain yourself forever to fuel pumps or the electric company when you can reduce or drastically reduce your dependence on them and your slavery to their prices. YOU CAN do something about it!!!

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Roads do NOT have to be in bad shape for tires to be noisy. Only the very newest roads are somewhat quiet. Ask the tire industry. There are many ways to make tires quiet. Hardly anyone asks for it though so they don’t put much effort into it.

jumpoffit - If you like noisy vehicles, you can get a sound system in your car and turn up the stupid gas engine noise as much as you want. Please just sound proof your car so that only you have to put up with it. We REALLY don’t care what music you listen to or what your car engine sounds like.

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Quote: To hell with corn squeezin’s! If not that new fangled algae stuff I want hydrogen!!! And I want the infrastructure controlled by the federal government like it is in other countries! Leave the greedy ass corporations COMPLETELY OUT of it! But we know that won’t happen because the damn rebuplicans won’t miss out on a chance to get some kick backs!

I’m sorry but I do NOT want to be suckered into the same fuel (as compared to gas) station bit that oil companies have been pulling for the last hundred years. If you think that hydrogen or ethanol is going to be less expensive at the pump, then I’ve got LOTS of bridges and water front property to sell you.

IT’S THE OIL COMPANIES that want you to be suckered into alternate fuels you have to go to a pump to buy.

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Disclaimer. I am not in the solar panel business and I don’t own any stock in companies connected to that industry. I’d just like to see people take control of their own lives and stop be screwed over by the oil industry.

Quote: I’m sorry but I do NOT want to be suckered into the same fuel (as compared to gas) station bit that oil companies have been pulling for the last hundred years. If you think that hydrogen or ethanol is going to be less expensive at the pump, then I’ve got LOTS of bridges and water front property to sell you.

IT’S THE OIL COMPANIES that want you to be suckered into alternate fuels you have to go to a pump to buy.

NOPE!!! Your wrong buddy! That’s why I said I want the Feds to run it so prices can be controlled! It could be like just another branch of the government like the post office or something. They do it in other countries and there prices are kept low. But they WON’T do it here because the Republicans ALWAYS want to turn everything over to big business!

DialM4Speed, that is so not true, both parties are two halves of the same coin, and to believe differently means you do not look closely enough to what they do in Congress.

dialm4Speed- We already have more than enough government intervention. End of argument.

Hydrogen is a no-go. There are other better ways. Do some research into hydrogen and you’ll realize it won’t work.

As technology becomes more advanced hydrogen wil eventually work.

NoNameDenton1 all I know is what I’ve heard. And it’s always been the republicans trying to turn over some part of the government to corporate America. You may be right about the dems doing it too but I’ve NEVER heard about it.
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dialm4Speed- We already have more than enough government intervention. End of argument.

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A prime example of why you can’t get jack **** done in this country! If it’s working in other countries then why would you not even want to look into what they are doing and copy it? I guess you like grabbing your ankles for corporate America!!!

No, not the way the Dems work, even though the parties are two halves of the same coin, they still have different bases. The stereotype for Republicans has been that they are for big business. However many owners of big business have links to the Dems, such as George Soros and the ilk. Some big business people prefer giving to both parties, to have friends with whoever wins. In the end the Republicans are moving towards big government slowly, while the Dems prefer to do it quickly. I agree with dialm4speed, we have too much government intervention and too much reliance on the government. It used to be that Americans were self reliant, indpendent, believed in self determination and such, but that is changing as we hand more power to the government.

‘Dufus’, the bankers running your country are as crooked and free as anyone in the world could be … the result of no government intervention is the collapse of BearStearns and, soon, Lehman Brothers … you’re an idiot … unbridled freedom leads to chaos.

dialm4speed- Wow, sure did get you worked up!

What are these countries your talking about? A communist run one? One where taxes are going to be your biggest living expense, from birth to death? Both of which are most likely in the countries your talking about.