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Four more years of this insanity? Obama’s Utopian green dream car built by union bailout money and subsidized by even more tax dollars can catch fire and then electrocute first responders trying to save the driver. So the DOE has allocated $4.4 million of your borrowed tax dollars to train firemen on how to first cut the battery cables twice before trying to save you. They get stupider and stupider.

Chevy Volt - Building a Better Tomorrow from Ben Howe on Vimeo.

The Volt joke has become symbolic of Obama’s “green” schemes to take your green and give it to companies that pretend to do something to save the planet but actually are doing more to save or create Obama campaign contributions. In GM’s case the auto unions which supported Obama with hundreds of millions of dues dollars were paid back with billions in taxpayer dollars to bailout GM and Chrysler.

Rep. Darrell Issa implies that the administration has been protecting GM’s high profile Volt after battery fires show real safety concerns. Obama pushed the Volt as part of his green dream for America. The Volt has been shown to be costing US taxpayers $24,000 per car sold.

In a classic example of Obama’s green schemes the touted future of the auto industry the all electric Chevy Volt costs taxpayers about $250,000 per car and is affordable only by the rich.

GM is recalling the biggest flop in autos since the Edsel. The Chevy electric Volt was touted by Obama as the future of the auto industry. Even with tens of thousands of dollars in government subsidies and fleet purchases by the government and its cronies like GE the Volt has failed dismally in sales. Now it has been discovered that the batteries in these “green” cars catch fire.

Already wasting billions in paying off the auto unions by bailing out Chrysler and GM, Obama pushes his green dreams which have become a nightmare reality in the Chevy Volt. Always crying that the rich need to “pay their fair share” Obama then subsidizes the rich when they purchase already heavily subsidized electric cars. Its OK though he’s using your money to subsidize them.

The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Welsh discusses whether the electric vehicle can make it through the winter weather. Government subsidies and government purchases have failed to prop up Chevy Volt sales. Electric cars are essentially coal powered since 46% of electricity is generated by coal.

Electric cars can draw as much power as a small house putting stress on neighborhood transformers and power grids. And remember most electricity comes from coal and oil so you’re not doing anything for the environment except creating toxic waste batteries.

Charles Krauthammer: “The only people who are going to buy it are going to be very rich people who are going to park it outside their townhouse for ostentatious show of how virtuous they are while they drive around in their Cadillac Escalade.” -video at RealClearPolitics

Green cars for the rich? Where does the federal government get off spending the average person’s tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?