I'll bet they didn't include the ongoing tax breaks they gave to GM, did they? (View Post)

GM got way more free $$ from the government than Tesla has, so the Volt was also heavily subsidized. (View Post)

I'll bet those D3 beancounters thought they were saving money in the 80s, 90s, 00s. But sometimes the price comes a lot later, and for a long time. (View Post)

Nowadays >90% of the cars on the road are black, white, or some variant of silver/grey. Occasional smatterings of red. In Europe it is more colorful, and in the 70's here it was more groovy. (View Post)

Of course we've thrown away a lot of other infrastructure. I suspect the bailout was more political than strategic in this regard. I don't give the politicians nearly enough credit for insight for it… (View Post)