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Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by Mike Protack

Mike Protack — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:43:10 +0000

Frank, it is too soon to say Fisker is a failure, bad idea sure but failure I don’t know yet. Government money (our tax $$$) can’t out run technology.

Hearings for political theater would be good but the bottom line is enforce the contracts and remember free enterprise is about profit and LOSS.

Jeff has many more issues and things to offer Delaware than Fisker.

Mike Protack

Comment on The Honorable Mayor Eastwood for President by meatball

meatball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:58:45 +0000

Oh, and Electronic Stability Control, which is largely responsible for the reduced fatalities adds less than $500 to the cost of a vehicle (that price includes anti-lock brakes). So, in conclusion, for an additional 27 cents a day ($8.50/month) over a five year period, you can greatly reduce your risk of death or serious injury. Anyone who thinks that is too expensive is simply ignorant.

Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by mynym

mynym — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:55:11 +0000

Ironically it seems that "fiscal only" conservatives never escape the social reality of faith and "religion." Are they imagining that these old pagan ideas about saving the earth from which ethical codes are derived and imposed on people by the government are not religious? If someone said that environmental catastrophes happened because a righteous God was angry then they would surely want to separate that from politics, right? In fact, if someone so much as says a prayer in public then it is imagined to victimize someone else and so on. On the other hand, when someone imagines that they are preventing an imaginary apocalypse in the future by imposing and inflicting energy policies on people in reality, then the memes of fiscal only conservatives tend to fall silent or emerge to support that pattern of thought. Apparently they like inflicting and imposing on the one hand but not the other. Meanwhile, back in reality, everyone should be very careful about doing any inflicting or imposing at all and generally just limit government while constantly checking and balancing it.

Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by mynym

mynym — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:53:02 +0000

So what charges electric cars? Electric from the grid. What fuels the generators for the grid? How are we ahead?

In theory or perhaps according to “imagination at work” it helps mankind avoid the highly refined uses of fire that warms his way of life and provides basic necessities to the point that there is plenty of time “left” for entertainment. The way that the Left has come to imagine things, the use of fire is like a sin against nature. So that is the image that they project while Hollywood imbeciles go babbling on about how the right is an enemy of nature and so on.

Meanwhile, poor people starve while the rich begin to entertain themselves with self-righteous theatrics of that sort. After all, the poor of the world have not been able to warm themselves at the fire of progress yet. If only they could begin to entertain themselves with ideas about warming an entire planet or moving the sun across the sky and so on.

Only in America do the arms of the poor grow ever thicker and only in America do people have enormous amounts of wealth to squander entertaining themselves with Leftist imagery. Apparently there won’t be an end to it unless the world loses faith in the credibility/”credit” of America.

Comment on The Honorable Mayor Eastwood for President by meatball

meatball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:30:53 +0000

And John, you are simply wrong about modern cars. Today’s cars are vastly safer than those of yesteryore.

Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by Michael P. Borgia

Michael P. Borgia — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:25:21 +0000

Far be it for me to agree with Alpha. I do it about once a year and this is it….

It’s time to haul them before Congress and the General Assembly to demand explanations on why they are not meeting their performance targets and what they have done and not done with the People’s money.

Comment on The Honorable Mayor Eastwood for President by SussexAnon

SussexAnon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:47:12 +0000

It is not a giant leap of faith to realize that a well regulated highway system is safer than driving without rules or regulations. I make this assumption on the foundation that I do not want someone driving 55+ mph down my residential street.

The same can be said for the other examples I listed. Seat belts, airbags, safety glass, etc. I make these assumptions on the foundation that people in cars with seat belts, air bags and safety glass are less likely to be injured in killed in a car crash.

But, please, do enlighten us to how crosswalks are a secret commie pagan bolshevik plot to infringe on our civil liberties and ruin this nation as we know it.

Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by Don Nots

Don Nots — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:09:30 +0000

So what charges electric cars? Electric from the grid. What fuels the generators for the grid? How are we ahead?

Comment on The Honorable Mayor Eastwood for President by Rick

Rick — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:42:26 +0000

Why does the left say that Omaba saved the auto industry?

The American taxpayer and FIAT ‘saved’ the car industry.

Comment on Is Fisker Motors Jack Markell’s Solyndra ? by Rick

Rick — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:36:43 +0000

Many manufacturers have success selling hybrids, because they can sell them at a reasonable price, and they have a dealer network to service and repair the vehicles. They also have their own money to use rather than relying on handouts from the ‘government,’ i.e., the taxpayers.

Fisker, like BO, doomed to fail.