GM vs. Bolling…
Wheels.ca has a story by Jim Kenzie where Dan Mepham, a product manager with General Motors of Canada, addresses comments Eric Bolling made about the Chevy Volt…
A piece by Eric Bolling, who appears on the Fox Business Channel’s Follow the Money program, in which he attempts to discredit the economics of operating a Chevrolet Volt, is making the e-mail rounds. I’ve got it twice already.
Bolling makes some dramatic claims, so I thought I should give GM a chance to comment. I asked Dan Mepham, a product manager with General Motors of Canada, to go over Bolling’s claims and give us GM’s side of the story.
Here are excerpts from Bolling’s piece (with metric conversions, as required), followed by Mepham’s responses (edited for space).
Update: I wandered into something without knowing the backstory. J$ pointed me to Bolling’s Facebook page where he disavowed the email…
ALERT! there is an email circulating the blogosphere>>> I have no idea who or where it came from. I DID test drive the Volt and document that experience on air but I made NO analysis of the cars cost to operate. the fraudulent email is below:
April 16, 2012 at 9:09 am
Like Mr.Kenzie says there are lots of questions about the viability of electric cars but when you base your argument against them on made up ‘facts’, like Bolling does in his screed, you defeat the case you are trying to make.
As well it’s never could to attack a sponsors product with imaginary ‘facts’ that can’t stand even rudimentary analysis.
Bolling may hearing from FNC’s sales department soon.
April 16, 2012 at 9:56 am
Volts = resistance x currency (Ohms $ Law)
April 16, 2012 at 10:04 am
That moron doesn’t care about facts. He – along with every righty in this country – has decided there’s a problem with the car because he doesn’t like the President’s policies. So he’ll keep lying about it.
Go on Twitter and find out how prevalent “Volt blows up” is among the right. It failed one test after three weeks because the NHTSA didn’t discharge the battery after a test crash (like a tow truck driver would). They ruled it no more prone to fire than any other car. Eric and Rush and the rest of those America-bashing idiots will never tell you this.
April 16, 2012 at 10:18 am
Drinking game: any Joe comment containing both “idiot(s)” and “moron(s)”. Mud in yer eye!
Meanwhile: bunk debunked:
http://www.facebook.com/EricBolling/posts/10150567380521277
April 16, 2012 at 10:37 am
April 16, 2012 at 10:38 am
April 16, 2012 at 10:54 am
I trusted Spud. Sue me. Bolling is still a moron, and the right is still lying about that car.
April 16, 2012 at 11:04 am
“Bolling is still a moron”
Is that “moron” in the sense that all conservatives are morons because you disagree with them, whereby “moron” could be replaced with any childish adjective. Or, “moron” like he’s just so stupid he prolly didn’t make it through junior high?
April 16, 2012 at 11:15 am
All these folks who lecture FOX about not being a “real news channel” sure are … avoiding some pretty basic tenants of journalism themselves.
April 16, 2012 at 11:35 am
Specific. Bolling. Moron. Idiot. Numbskull. Ridickerous.
April 16, 2012 at 11:37 am
^DRINK!
April 16, 2012 at 12:15 pm
April 17, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Of course a burning desire, no more than desire, but burning need to believe any and all such twofer stories re FOX and conservatives doesn’t ever enter into it!
May 25, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I miss Eric Bolling’s Follow the Money program. Why was it taken off the air?