Insight: GM's Volt - The ugly math of low sales, high costs

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Originally Posted by TVDOC

More fodder......



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Seems like it's more straw for your strawman. I've said repeatedly that I am completely against government picking winners and losers in technology. I also said that only the free market will ever tell us whether a technology is economically viable. It's just that technology is constantly improving, and paradigms are constantly shifting so I wouldn't write off electric cars as "never going to happen." They will happen if/when the free market determines the conditions are right.

So for someone who claims a lot of credentials, I really am wondering whether you like being obtuse, like to argue, or invent strawmen arguments because fallacious internet debates are fun. Because what is this quote fodder for, exactly?

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Originally Posted by m00

I see you are in full-on stalker/cheerleader mode.

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Is the entire world fucked up but you m00?

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Originally Posted by m00

I see you are in full-on stalker/cheerleader mode.

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I see you are a bit of a hyper sensitive bitch.

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Originally Posted by Rockntractor

Is the entire world fucked up but you m00?

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No, at least not the people I've met in the places I've been. But a good chunk of the Internet is. Could you imagine drinking a beer and debating a regular at a bar, and some random acquaintance walks up and starts shouting "pwned" in your face, and patting your debate partner in the back? And then you later are in a debate with a different regular, and the same guy comes up and does the same thing? This happens on Internet message boards. People tend to be a lot less civil, and are more prone to behaving in bad faith and/or deliberately putting words in other peoples' mouths. In my opinion. I don't know how people behave where you live.

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Originally Posted by wasp69

I see you are a bit of a hyper sensitive bitch.

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Originally Posted by m00

No, at least not the people I've met in the places I've been. But a good chunk of the Internet is. Could you imagine drinking a beer and debating a regular at a bar, and some random acquaintance walks up and starts shouting "pwned" in your face, and patting your debate partner in the back? And then you later are in a debate with a different regular, and the same guy comes up and does the same thing?

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Awww, I'm so sorry, princess. Let me amend my last statement: You are a bit of a hyper sensitive, whiny bitch.

Just because your personal ignorance knows no limit in multiple topics/disciplines does not mean that other posters are not allowed to point it out.

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Originally Posted by m00

No, at least not the people I've met in the places I've been. But a good chunk of the Internet is. Could you imagine drinking a beer and debating a regular at a bar, and some random acquaintance walks up and starts shouting "pwned" in your face, and patting your debate partner in the back? And then you later are in a debate with a different regular, and the same guy comes up and does the same thing? This happens on Internet message boards. People tend to be a lot less civil, and are more prone to behaving in bad faith and/or deliberately putting words in other peoples' mouths. In my opinion. I don't know how people behave where you live.

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Actually, now that I see it written out like that, it sounds kinda fun. :biggrin-new: