This happens to be Buzz Golfcart - oops I mean, Lightyears personal car. And you too, might be driving one!
In several cities in Michigan, new ion batteries are being produced for the giant wave of electric cars that will be taking over the highways and byways of America. Mind you, the cars aren’t really there, the demand isn’t there, but the batteries will be. In fact, most Americans don’t even want this kind of car.
I envision a warehouse in Livonia, MI full of ion batteries for a car that will never be embraced by the American people – until the gas prices go so high, thanks to the government, that we have no choice left.
From the AP- 9/12/10:
“Cost is high [for the electric car batteries].”
How high you ask?
Right now they will cost the consumer $33,000.00. That’s on top of the price of the car. “Although stimulus money could [- COULD -] bring them down to $10,000.00 by the end of 2015.”
That’s still $10K on top of the price of a new car. But Good Lord – who can afford a new car, anyway?
Remember those words from Obama’s Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, and I paraphrase: I plan to coerce Americans out of their cars.

Buzz Lightyear, the new Government Motors mascot
The battery has a life of 100miles, when charged. You won’t be going too far from home, will ya? Once again, a ploy by the statists to control your travel . . . your mobility. Easier to keep track of the population when they can’t go anywhere, isn’t it?
The battery factory in Holland, MI expects to employ 90 workers and produce between 75,000 and 150,000 cars by the end of next year. But of course, this all depends on the demand for the Lego-like cars to be produced. (I know I’m mixing cartoons and toys here – Lego and Disney – but never mind that.) This factory got almost $300 MILLION in federal grant money.
“The rapid buildup of production capacity by companies with limited experience for product with challenging market may prove wasteful,” said Menahem Anderman, founder and president of Total Battery Consulting, a California-based battery consulting firm. (There are consulting firms for BATTERIES???)
Yes, well, that’s my point. We are producing massive amounts of car batteries for a car that is hardly rolling on the roads, yet and may never be rolling.
But doggonit! we the taxpayers are employing thousands of Michiganders!
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Right on, Mr.Vet! Everything they can do to suppress small business development.
The one point I didn’t make, but is of utmost importance is what energy will be recharging these batteries?
COAL? HYDROELECTRIC? YES and YES.
But the assault is on for passing crap-n-tax which is an assault on the coal industry. How do we keep warm in the winter, let alone charge our government made-government mandated Lego golf carts when we can’t afford the energy. . . thanks to THE GOVERNMENT?
September 14th, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Ground Air Force 1 and require Obama to campaign using battery operated vehicles.
The article above is the essence of common sense.
Batteries fail, and we throw them away.
Industry will embrace any opportunity to advance the bottom line if they are allowed to proceed without the the constrictions of an onerous government policy.
The present administration is attempting to create a welfare state throughout America while diminishing any attempts of small company entrepreneurs to have any aspect of a level ground with which to base the future of their enterprise on.