Cue Queen singing “Another One Bites The Dust.” Despite the best of liberal intentions, another liberal dream is dead.
Think Global, the Norwegian car company that designed and manufactured the Think City electric car is swirling down the economic porcelain convenience.
This charming little 2-passenger car was supposed to sell for $28,000 but without generous subsidies available to American manufacturers, the price tag skyrocketed. Sales never amounted to a hill of beans. (As a side note, climbing a hill of beans would have drained the Think City’s battery and it would have needed to stop several hours for recharging.)
We’re sorry to report that Think Global has gone the way of most liberal pipedreams. It’s filed for bankruptcy and will be liquidated in an attempt to net a couple bucks for its creditors.
For god’s sake, man, isn’t there a Norwegian version of Uncle Sugar to make sure that billions of Norwegian tax dollars get wasted on wacky liberal Euroschemes?
Source: Engadget.com
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Simple! Just subsidize the hell out of it, than tax the ball-bearings off anything that runs on nasty ol' gasoline!
"Simple! Just subsidize the hell out of it ..."
PsychoDad, that's just what I was thinking. They should move their manufacturing plant to Greece. Plenty of subsidies available there!
Or they could ask OBummer for a cash infusion!!
Save the moving costs..
You know, I was thinking about "making electricity without oil, nuclear.....". Isn't Moochelle over in Africa wolfing down on the Fat Cakes?? I'll bet those give her a helluva lot of gas. (You wouldn't want to be on Air Force 1 on the way home). Couldn't we just plug her into the natural gas (that wouldn't be "natural" gas, if it were caused by FAT CAKES would it?), and then we can zoom around, powered by Moochelle! Wouldn't that be something? She could wolf down all them fat cakes, that she wants so much, and move us away from needing oil! I love win-win situations!
I live in Wisconsin, that two passenger, electric piece of crap wouldn't survive a week in one of our winters. Too, it looks like it would implode in an accident, an ordinary fender bender could become a fatal encounter. Anyway for $28,000 I could buy a safe, reliable Honda Accord.
Said it before:
When the technology is sufficiently advanced and we can get 220-400 miles per charge (similar to a tank of gas) and we can recharge the battery in minutes instead of overnight (again, similar to a tank of gas), THEN we’ll talk about it.
"Said it before:
When the technology is sufficiently advanced and we can get 220-400 miles per charge (similar to a tank of gas) and we can recharge the battery in minutes instead of overnight (again, similar to a tank of gas), THEN we’ll talk about it."
Yeah, and we'll probably be able to that just about the same time we figure out how to miniaturize a fusion reactor!
Don't forget CaliforniaDave, and a way to produce enough electricity that doesn't use coal, or oil, or nuclear, or anything else that may upset Al Gore.
Eureka I've got it!!
Solar panel charging units!!
Literally and figuratively "Dumb and Dumber"..
The local Shriners wouldn't get caught dead in one of those things.
What we need is a car that runs on the word "raaaaacist". That way, the driver could turn on NPR or some other media POS and you would have the closest thing possible to a perpetual motion machine.
"Raaaacist!".... hey, I just went another 50 feet....
Buck! Be careful!! With all that RAAAAAAAAACIST stuff out there, you may never get it to stop!!
Now we know electric cars have the range to get to bankruptcy court.
I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I say, that so many Americans were unwilling to spend nearly $30G (to start) in order to purchase such a fine looking hood ornament (because that's about all that car would look like after a crash), Americans are SO greedy, actually expecting to LIVE through an accident...
LOLOLOL
I hear the National Mortuary Association is against these so-called 'cars' because if you get killed in a wreck while in one you don't need to buy a coffin, they can just bury you in the car, which cuts into their money.
Looks like they got zapped.
I hope all you people out there have stocked up on supplies of water, food, and ammo. It won't be long now before paper money becomes useless toilet paper.
When all the millions of sheeple stop getting their checks from uncle sugar, they will be the first wave of cannon fodder to hit the streets and justify Obummer declaring himself King of AmeriKKa. Martial law and a new barrack-0dollar will cement his ascendance to king-premiere of the North Amerikkan Union. His 1st order of business will be to get a U.N. peacekeeping mission right here in this country with troops from every other country on this planet that hates the former USA so the complete genocide of all the bitter clingers can begin.
I am locked & loaded and can & will protect my family, can you protect yours?
Spy, your a bit off base. As long as we have cable tv and mayo sandwiches the poor will not revolt. You need a truly cold winter, no food, and plenty of boredom to start a really good revolution.
It never hurts to be ready though.