Cost to operate a Chevy Volt

[preachinjesus]

As a non-American, could I ask what you mean when you say that this particular model of car "is a bad piece of technology forced upon the American taxpayer"? How are American taxpayers "forced" to buy any car, let alone this particular model?

Several have answered exactly as I would have...essentially when we, the taxpayers, are cajoled into paying for a car through tax rebates (you get like $5,000 from the government for buying one) and taking tax money and funding the company, specifically the department that makes these hunks of junk, we believe we have been "forced" to purchasing the vehicle (in the national sense.)

Yet I go to local Chevy dealership and they can't sell them (primarily sticker price...I mean who really wants to pay $40k for something that looks like a $20k Ford Tarus or Chevy Malibu) and they are pretty useless below the Mason Dixon line (a geographical distinctive that indicates the South) since the weather eats up the battery.

Just doesn't make sense to me. Hope that helps.

 

[Don]

GM is temporarily halting production of the Volt.

http://thehill.com/blogs/transporta...es/213889-gm-halting-production-of-chevy-volt

 

[Arbo]

Back in the early 1990s I had a Geo Metro. Low 40 mpgs in town and about 60 highway. Better than the hybrids I've been seeing (though the Geo was little more than a golf cart with a 5 speed).

 

[billwald]

When I bought my Metro I was driving 100 miles a day in a 25 year old Chev 350 P/U. I saw a write up on the Metro one afternoon and bought one the next day, only vehicle i have bought on credit. The payments were less than what I was paying for gas.

 

[glfredrick]

I need one today -- or a VW turbo diesel -- my daily commute is 82 miles and on days I am at the church I get to tack on an additional 40 miles.

 

[David Lamb]

Thanks to all who answered my question about US tax payers and this car. I should have given the matter a bit more thought, and realised what was meant, particularly in view of the UK government's "bail-out" of RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) which never seens far from the headlines! Thanks again!