That Is One BIG Pork Chop!

The old saying goes that when a baby is ugly, very ugly, the parents would have to tie a pork chop around its neck just to get the dog to play with it. Now replace the baby with a car like the Chevy Volt and the pork chop with a boat load of government incentives.

How ugly is the Chevy Volt and how big is the pork chop? The Volt gets 40 miles on a charge (the primary motor without gasoline backup) and costs $41,000 MSRP. It is so ugly that the government has to slap a $7,500 federal tax credit just to get consumers to even consider playing with it! Even then it will still cost $33,500. FYI that is nearly twice what I have ever paid for a new car. My Chevy HHR was somewhere around $18,000.

Of course the Volt will also have a gasoline backup because few people, if anyone, would buy a car that took several hours to charge and then could only go no further than 20 miles from home base. But the rub is that you have to fill the tank with expensive premium gasoline. That tank will extend the range of the Volt 300 miles. Might as well buy a standard gasoline powered car at this rate huh?

Gee, maybe it is time we stop making ugly babies and subsidizing them with tax payer funded pork chops?

Nah, then what would our masters in Washington do with their pathetic lives?