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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:00 pm 
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all data unless owners opt out

Register [UK], by Bill Ray



Cars fitted with OnStar's technology will be tracked even if the owners don't sign up to the service, in a change to the company's policy that will kick in come December.

OnStar is a service offered by General Motors USA, which inserts a mobile phone, along with telemetry tracking kit, into cars sold by the company. Owners are then offered the option to sign up to the navigation and automatic crash reporting, but in a policy change the company will start collecting data from drivers even if they haven't signed up for the service.

In the notice being sent out to subscribers, and picked up by Wired, OnStar explains that from December this year it will start collecting information about everything from oil levels to mileage, and details of any accident in which the vehicle is involved – including direction of impact, seatbelt use and the location/speed of the vehicle at the time of the accident.

That is the critical part, to the insurance companies at least. Several US insurance claims have already been invalidated by cars which grassed on their owners, who proved to be travelling faster than they had admitted, and OnStar will hand over the data to the police when required to, and anyone else they deem necessary for "the safety of you or others"


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/onstar_ecall/


Another reason not to buy domestic cars.

Go Honda.

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115-year-old electric car gets same 40 miles to the charge as Chevy Volt
Daily Caller, by Chris Bedford


Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.”

The executives at Chevrolet can rest easy for now. Since the Roberts was constructed in an age before Henry Ford’s mass production, the 115-year-old electric car is one of a kind.

But don’t let the car’s 115 years let you think it isn’t tough: It’s present-day owner, who prefers not to be named, told The Daily Caller it still runs like a charm, and has even completed the roughly 60-mile London to Brighton Vintage Car Race.

If you didn’t know there are electric cars as old as the Roberts, you aren’t alone. Prior to today’s battle of electric v. gas, there was another battle: Electric v. gas v. steam. This contest was fought in the market place, and history shows gas gave electric and steam an even more thorough whooping than Coca-Cola gave Moxie.


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Treasury dramatically boosts estimate of Gov't Motors' bailout losses

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Also in the same article....
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The big increase is a reflection of the sharp decline in the value of GM's share price.

So when the stock goes up the loss will decrease...you should keep a day-by-day account...

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Chrysler plans $500M upgrade, 1,100 new jobs at Toledo plant

From The Detroit News:http://detnews.com/article/20111116/AUTO01/111160392/Chrysler-plans-$500M-upgrade--1-100-new-jobs-at-Toledo-plant#ixzz1duRydAmF

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GOV'T MOTORS Volt Battery-Fire Investigation Closed by Gov't Regulators

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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
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GM Back on Top Among the World's Automakers: The Ticker
Attention taxpayers: Pat yourself on the back. General Motors Co., one-third of whose shares are owned by you, sold 9,025,942 vehicles last year, up 7.6 percent from 2010. The accomplishment is probably enough to restore GM's place as the king of automakers.
And it's only been two years since you bailed the company out -- to the tune of $50 billion.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-1 ... icker.html

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Republicans blast auto bailout plan

Second-ranking GOP senator Jon Kyl says the Democrats' $25 billion auto bailout would only delay "the day of reckoning."
WASHINGTON—Top Republicans heaped scorn Sunday on a plan by Democrats to spend $25 billion rescuing American automakers, raising doubts about whether the auto bailout can pass the lame-duck Congress that begins today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... duck_N.htm

Say what Mr.Kyl?
Mr. Kyl. has anybody told you lately that your a piece of sh!t?

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The oil companies worst nightmare:
2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid packs 47 mpg, dashing good looks
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/09/2013 ... roit-2012/

Holy crap, Ford just set the bar
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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
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edge540 wrote:
The oil companies worst nightmare:
2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid packs 47 mpg, dashing good looks
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/09/2013 ... roit-2012/

Holy crap, Ford just set the bar
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and they didn't have to bailed out by obama to do it.

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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
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and they didn't have to bailed out by obama to do it.

Wrong again, genius.
Fact is, it was Barry's 5.9 billion dollar loan for developing fuel-efficient technology that made it all possible.
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In fact, Ford chief executive Alan Mulally sat shoulder to shoulder with GM and Chrysler when they asked Congress for government help so that a collapse of the companies and their suppliers wouldn’t take down the entire industry. Now the gloves are off.

But wait a minute. OK, Ford didn’t file bankruptcy or get bailed out by Uncle Sam, but didn’t it receive $5.9 billion in low-cost government loans in 2009 to overhaul its factories and bring out more fuel-efficient technology? What would have happened to Ford if Congress hadn’t authorized taxpayer money to fund that $25 billion Energy Department program during a moment of crisis for the industry?

It’s hard to say, of course, but the fact is, with the aid of that taxpayer loan and a well-timed bank loan of $23 billion, Ford managed to tiptoe past the graveyard and avoid bankruptcy. Since then, it has run its business well and reduced its debt from $33.6 billion to $12.2 billion.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller ... ommercial/

It's really a shame that low information, clueless cons like mr grape don't know WTF they're blabbing about.

Bottom line:
Despite the anti labor GOP scumbags in congress, Obama saved the US auto industry.

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CHEVY DEALERS REFUSING TO TAKE VOLTS

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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
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Capitol Hill Chevy Volt Hearing:
What About All the Other Fires?

Big Government, by Seton Motley


I attended Wednesday’s 8:00am (8am?!?) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled:

Volt Vehicle Fire: What Did NHTSA Know And When Did They Know It?

The witnesses were killer:

National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Barack Obama-appointee Administrator David Strickland.

And General Motors (GM), Barack Obama-appointee CEO Dan Akerson.

The scope of the hearing was a bit too narrow – leaving out some fairly important attending facts. Like, say, the (at least) five other Chevy Volt fires that have occurred besides the one being discussed.

This hearing was all about a single June Volt blaze. The battery burst into flames about three weeks after a test crash at and by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).

A fire about which Obama’s NHTSA did tell the Obama White House.

But a fire about which neither Obama’s NHTSA, the Obama Administration nor Obama’s GM told the American people for nearly six months – and then did so only when forced by a looming Bloomberg news story.

But:

The White House had no role in the decision to delay disclosure of a fire that broke out in a crash-tested Chevrolet Volt, the Obama administration told Congress on Friday.

Of COURSE not.

But:

Joan Claybrook, a former administrator at NHTSA believes part of the reason for the delay was the “fragility of Volt sales.” Yet she also believes that “NHTSA could have put out a consumer alert, not to tell them [customers] for six months makes no sense to me.”

Obama is running for reelection in great part on the non-success “success” of the $85 billion auto industry bailout.


http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2012/0 ... ore-416440

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More bad news for Obama haters, the GOP and Mittens:

GM Posts Record $7.6-Billion Profit
General Motors earned a record $7.6 billion profit last year, the highest profit in the company’s 103-year history. It sold 640,000 more cars and trucks in 2011 than it did in 2010 and took in a total of $105 billion.

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 Post subject: Re: Welcome to Gub'Mint Motors
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More bad news for Obama haters, the GOP and Mittens:

GM Posts Record $7.6-Billion Profit
General Motors earned a record $7.6 billion profit last year, the highest profit in the company’s 103-year history. It sold 640,000 more cars and trucks in 2011 than it did in 2010 and took in a total of $105 billion.



You can thank George Bush for that right?

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Yes, George does deserve some credit.
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In December 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush agreed to a $13.4 billion bailout for General Motors followed by an additional $39 billion from the Barack Obama adminstration. The financing came from the $700 billion fund known as the TARP that was intended for financial institutions.


Most right wing extremists and republicans did not support it.
All democrats supported bailout.

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