My opinion is that Rush is listened to because of what he says and the perspective he applies to his topics. The rest of them (Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.) get listeners and viewers who want to hear what their guests have to say.

No consideration has been given to how much additional commercial electrical generating capacity would be needed if all the cars and trucks in the US were powered by electricity. Nor to how much it will cost to safely dispose of all the batteries and battery materials those cars will need–lead, exotic metals, etc.

I wouldn’t mind the Dems relaxing their opposition to Nuclear plants. There hasn’t been a new one built in the US in more than 20 years. They’re going up all over the world. Just not here.

Nuclear isn’t totally domestic, but only a very tiny sliver of the total expense goes towards foreign bought uranium, and that uranium comes from friendly democracies.

Either way, they are a whole lot better than buying middle east oil.

“In other words, more Japanese.” The implication being that this would be a BAD thing?

The parody was created by someone who thinks the auto companies actually buy patents that improve fuel efficiency in order to bury them and keep oil companies happy. I don’t know why that makes sense to people, but it doesn’t to somebody in business.

It’s not like Shell can just say, “We won’t sell gas to people who drive GM cars.” They’d have to tell their franchisees, “Look, we want to increase our profits, so we’re going to eliminate roughly 30% of your sales. Can’t have people driving those fuel efficient cars.” To prevent this scenario, GM makes vehicles that get low gas mileage that people are less inclined to buy now that gas is $2.50/gallon.

Yeah, right. That makes sense.

Maybe it’s just more likely that these patents didn’t work… Or in a lot of cases, never existed in the first place… ‘Cause let’s face it, when gas was $4 a gallon, just about every car company in America would have loved to have had that 100mpg carburetor.

I am just as angry as anyone else that GM got this bailout, but there is honest criticism and there is paranoia. The parody maker is paranoid.

However, I’d imagine that he knows GM is being galvanize under socialism where the risk is paid by the people and the profits are taken by the “oligarchy”-where he has no control of the bigger picture.

Rush knows where his bread is buttered, and it’s based and marinated in principle.

GM is not a long term play, but character is.

I agree with Neil. No conflict if he isn’t pulling his punches, and he isn’t as far as I’ve heard. He needs to keep all his advertisers–here in Flagstaff (Ann Arbor SW), local advertisers seem to be boycotting his show. The local station dropped him when DST started across the country. It took them about two weeks to change their minds. I guess that enough of us let them know we weren’t interested in listening to Dolly and Waylon and Reba for three hours each morning.

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GM kills electric car, five others in shooting spree.

CEO Says electric car tried to “f**k my s**t up” and totally “had it coming”. Electric car is survived by electric scooter, and electric bus.

Follow the links there to read about the ’90s “EV-1″ and its “thousands of customers lined up to buy it,” and also Michael Moore’s rant on HuffPo.