{"id":2739,"date":"2011-03-04T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T13:19:05","slug":"its_not_easy_being_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Easy Being Green…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes people simply tell the truth because that is their style.  That happened recently when NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. commented on the Chevy Volt.  According to CNS News<\/a> yesterday, Mr. Earnhardt said:<\/p>\n

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“I think that the Chevy Volt’s a good product. I think that the consumers need to understand how difficult it is to produce a car with the standards that they have, with the guidelines that they have today, that can actually do what the consumer wants and what the consumer expects.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The technology isn’t there yet really to provide the consumer with something that can go a little bit further than that [in mileage] and do a little bit better job with that,” said Earnhardt.  “But as the technology gets better, batteries and such things like that get safer to where they can be more heavily charged and the mileage can be a little bit longer.  That’s down the pike — but for where we are today, it’s a pretty good product in my mind,” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Somehow, I don’t think that was what the government wanted to hear, since they are responsible for the subsidies that make the Volt possible.  <\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

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“Consumer Reports said the Volt it tested got 23 to 28 miles per charge and <\/em>cost $48,700<\/em><\/a>. “For now, it seems that owning a Volt is an expensive way to be green,” said the <\/em>review<\/em><\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Earnhardt made his remarks at the National Guard Youth Foundation’s ChalleNGe Champions gala<\/a> on Tuesday, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes people simply tell the truth because that is their style.  That happened recently when NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. commented on the Chevy Volt.  According to CNS News yesterday, Mr. Earnhardt said: “I think that the Chevy Volt’s a good … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}