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#1 In a statement, GM said that it now runs its business "as if climate change is real and believe we have a role to play in developing new cars, trucks and technologies that can make a difference".
Oh wow, man.
And here all this time I thought they were in the business of making money selling cars.
Didn't know there was a percentage from saving the planet.
Posted by tu3031 2012-03-31 00:38||
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#6 Farts? First thing I learned in college was how to light my farts. Does that mean I had a Chevy Volt prototype coming out of my butt?
Posted by Raj 2012-03-31 01:15||
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#7 From Wik. How times they have changed:
The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright)[1] is a commercial jingle from circa 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP),[2] written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp.[1] The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy,[1] years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952,[1] and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s,
Posted by Besoeker 2012-03-31 01:56||
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#8 I hope Heartland sues Glieck's butt off. The guy rode the AGW gravy train for well over 20 years.
Posted by phil_b 2012-03-31 04:38||
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#9 I wonder if they do the Two Minute Hate?
Of course it being GM, it probably takes twelve minutes.
Posted by Pappy 2012-03-31 11:08||
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#10 First read of the headline, I saw septic tank. Considering it was GM being talked about, figured a case of 'Redundant Editor Redunancy Insertion'
Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-03-31 11:48||
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#11 Obama Motors.
They should call it the Solyndra Institute to get funding.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-03-31 12:01||
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#12 GM said that it now runs its business "as if climate change is real...
We also run our business as if arithmetic no longer applies and even though we are losing money on every Volt sold, we hope to make it up on volume. We're too big to fail!
Posted by SteveS 2012-03-31 17:29||
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