{"id":5386,"date":"2010-07-28T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T23:27:08","slug":"obama-motors-41k-chevy-chase-national-review-07-28-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/obama-motors-41k-chevy-chase-national-review-07-28-10","title":{"rendered":"Obama Motors’ $41K Chevy Chase (National Review, 07.28.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After driving GM’s new, plug-in electric Chevy Volt, Late Night funnyman Jay Leno quipped that “if you didn’t know, you might think it’s a Cobalt” – a reference to GM’s pedestrian, $15-grand, entry-level small car.<\/P>
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Ouch. Who would buy a $41,000 Cobalt? Or even a $33,500 Cobalt (federal tax credit included).<\/P>
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Obama Motors new pride and joy is an overpriced gizmo manufactured for Barack Obama’s liberal Hyde Park friends. GM will roll it out in select markets ” that is, urban markets where upscale Democrats will covet the Volt as their green status car. Call it the Chevy Chase. . . .<\/P><\/p>\n

Full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After driving GM’s new, plug-in electric Chevy Volt, Late Night funnyman Jay Leno quipped that “if you didn’t know, you might think it’s a Cobalt” – a reference to GM’s pedestrian, $15-grand, entry-level small car. Ouch. Who would buy a $41,000 Cobalt? Or even a $33,500 Cobalt (federal tax credit included). Obama Motors new pride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}