{"id":2477,"date":"2012-01-15T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2012-01-15T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:06:58","slug":"government-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Government Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Post by Loki<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fisker-karma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fisker-karma-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fisker karma\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fisker-karma-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fisker-karma.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAmongst the bailouts (think supporter payback) the Obama Administration sent $529 million to Finland (no, Finland is not in the USA) to support electric cars. For its $529 million the Finnish company Fisker has built 40 Karma (ironic name choice) cars so far. That amounts to about $13 million per car\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so far. I am sure with mass production they should be able to bring the price below $10 million per car. The administration defends this arrangement and assures us that Al Gore being a partner of the company has no relevance. I guess even Obama was not impressed with the Chevy Volt. Maybe because the Chevy Volt is built to government standards. By the way the Fisker Karma like the Chevy Volt is also prone to burning to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo DiCaprio has purchased one of these government subsidized vehicles for only $100,000 easily affordable by the average American tax payer. I wonder how Fisker stays in business selling a car for much less than their production costs. I hope DiCaprio purchased his vehicle before the end of 2011 and received his tax write-off for electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>So don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you feel better about Obama as you drive your 10-year-old sedan down the road? I know I feel better knowing my tax dollars are keeping a worker in Finland employed and a Hollywood actor mobile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Loki Amongst the bailouts (think supporter payback) the Obama Administration sent $529 million to Finland (no, Finland is not in the USA) to support electric cars. For its $529 million the Finnish company Fisker has built 40 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}