{"id":4031,"date":"2011-01-12T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/why-i-wont-buy-another-gm-product\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:57:35","slug":"why-i-wont-buy-another-gm-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/why-i-wont-buy-another-gm-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Won&#8217;t Buy Another GM Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"right\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/span>First, there is the matter of General Motors taking the government bailout. And now, there is a candid admission by GM&#8217;s North American President, Mark Reuss that they really don&#8217;t care what their customers think.<\/p>\n<p>From Henry Payne via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/256970\/government-auto-show-henry-payne\">Planet Gore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Government Auto Show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With four inches of snow blanketing Detroit outside Cobo Convention Center and flakes falling on 49 of 50 U.S. states (Florida excepted), GM announced at the Detroit Auto Show <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20110111\/AUTO04\/101110360\/1148\/rss25\">this week<\/a> that it is developing an all-electric vehicle fleet to combat . . . global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are flocking to snow-covered dealer lots to trade in their compact sedans for four-wheel drive SUVs, but The General also rolled out a new Chevy subcompact and the first Buick compact.<\/p>\n<p>GM&#8217;s North American president, Mark Reuss, made it clear what&#8217;s driving product development. &#8220;Forget about gas prices. The regulatory environment through 2016 is going to dictate what we do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You got to plan your portfolio to be there from a CO2 greenhouse gas standpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a rare candid moment, a major auto executive admitted that what motivates today\u2019s auto production is not the consumer &#8212; it\u2019s the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For complete auto show coverage, go to The <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/section\/miview\">Michigan View.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, there is the matter of General Motors taking the government bailout. And now, there is a candid admission by GM&#8217;s North American President, Mark Reuss&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-greenbats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}