By USA Today - Give a retired GM executive, especially the ever-glib Bob Lutz, a microphone and he waxes eloquent. But give him a blog on Forbes.com, and you see what a political bind his erstwhile conservative running mates have created for him. When will Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, and others stop lying about the Chevy Volt? Lutz wants to know.Lutz isn't shy about taking credit for the Volt and defending it and his conservative pedigree to the hilt. How he makes his three points:
- The Volt was largely my idea, and I was its undeniable champion. Work on it was started in 2006. Obama was elected in 2008.
- No Volt in service has ever shown as much as a wisp of smoke. Not in normal service, and not in crashes. The three Volt battery fires all occurred under extremely destructive experimental conditions. Two of the fires were induced in batteries not mounted in cars.
- Those who know me will vouch for my credentials as a conservative and vocal global warming skeptic. I spent 11 years as a Marine attack aviator trained and ready to take out Communists during the Cold War.
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