{"id":94,"date":"2009-04-07T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-04-07T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T19:05:29","slug":"the-volt-wont-pay-the-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/energy\/the-volt-wont-pay-the-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volt won&#8217;t &#8220;pay the rent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word from GM (i.e. Government Motors) is that all the car models need to &#8220;pay the rent.&#8221;  It can&#8217;t sell at a profit, it&#8217;s gone.  Hell, even some of the models that sell at a profit are going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\/2009\/04\/06\/money-losing-chevy-volt-will-stay-alive-even-if-it-cant-pay-th\/\">The interesting exception, the Chevy Volt<\/a>.  Officials at GM admit that the Volt probably won&#8217;t be putting red ink on the books for the first couple of model years. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2008\/09\/02\/taking-a-quick-look-at-the-volt\/\">I&#8217;ve written about the Volt before<\/a>. It has some interesting technology, but given Chevy&#8217;s financial situation, should it be making exceptions to the &#8220;pay the rent&#8221; rule?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word from GM (i.e. Government Motors) is that all the car models need to &#8220;pay the rent.&#8221; It can&#8217;t sell at a profit, it&#8217;s gone. Hell, even some of the models that sell at a profit are going. The interesting exception, the Chevy Volt. Officials at GM admit that the Volt probably won&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8,19,30],"tags":[95,127,188,613,621],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-politics","category-technology","tag-alternate-fuel-car","tag-automobile","tag-car","tag-plug-in-hybrid","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}