Note: This first appeared in Breitbart.com's Big Government.
The Chevy Volt fire denials are getting harder and harder to maintain:
Last week, a fire badly damaged the home of a new Fisker Karma owner, and authorities are saying that the electric car was the source of the blaze.
According to Fort Bend County, Texas, chief fire investigator Robert Baker, the Fisker Karma started the fire that spread to the house.
“Yes, the Karma was the origin of the fire, but what exactly caused that we don't know at this time,” he said. The car was a complete loss.
Oops.
According to the report, the Karma car, which was not plugged in, caught fire less than three minutes after being driven into the garage and that the battery remains intact.
General Motors (GM) and the Barack Obama Administration have been all along ignoring at least five Chevy Volt fires, and blaming the one to which they would cop on a total-loss accident that caused severe damage to the Volt’s lithium-ion battery.
This Karma lithium-ion battery was not in a crash, and “remain(ed) intact” after the fire. So much for the GM-Obama Volt “fix.”
More on the combustible Karma:
Right before the fire, the owner reported a smell of burning rubber.
“The car was brand-new,” said Baker. “He still had paper tags on it, so it was 60 days old at [most].”
According to Baker, the Karma was a post-recall vehicle bought in April...
Baker estimated damages at roughly $100,000, not including the other two vehicles in the garage, a Mercedes-Benz SUV and an Acura NSX.
“This looks just like golf cart fires we have down here,” said Baker. The suburban Houston area has approximately 50 golf cart fires a year, he said.
Golf carts use...lithium-ion batteries. Like the Fisker Karma. And the Chevy Volt.
Given this newest, latest danger, I’m sure everyone is going to now finally open up and be totally forthright.
“I've worked homicide scenes with less secrecy,” Baker added. “There have to be about 15 engineers down here working on this one.”
Oh. Maybe not.
When reached for comment, Fisker had this to say:
Last week, Fisker Automotive was made aware of a garage fire involving three vehicles, including a Karma sedan, that were parked at a newly-constructed residence in Sugar Land, Texas. There were no injuries.
There are conflicting reports and uncertainty surrounding this particular incident. The cause of the fire is not yet known and is being investigated.
You read Chief Fire Investigator Baker’s assessment. Does he seem conflicted?
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The “conflicting reports and uncertainty surrounding this particular incident” are:
But this is the first time these sorts of “conflicting reports and uncertainty” have existed around an Volt-esque battery, yes?
Ummm, no:
(T)he Volt caught fire again, this time, apparently, from where the battery is located.
The mystery is deepened by the fact that before the first fire, the Volt was plugged in, recharging over night (as was the Samurai); in the second fire, however, the plug-in hybrid (what was left of it) was not connected to a power source...
GM's people seem to have found no actual problem with the Volt....
Again, no:
(And o)n Wednesday (April 11), a General Motors (GM) lithium-ion battery exploded and caused a fire at a research facility near its Detroit headquarters. Most unfortunately,…one employee faces life-threatening injuries....
After the explosion, GM issued a statement – then an updated statement – in which they asserted:
“The battery tested and the incident have no connection with the Chevrolet Volt or any other GM production vehicle.”
And then there’s this:
Duke Energy is warning some of its customers after a fire started at a home in Mooresville (North Carolina).
Investigators said they do not know what started the fire, but they fear it could be a (Chevy Volt) electric car charging station. As a result, Duke Energy officials want anyone who has a charging station to stop using it until they know the devices are safe....
Duke Energy sounds about as conflicted as Chief Fire Investigator Baker.
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Reality would seem to dictate that the Chevy Volt may very well have a fire problem. It may be the battery. It may be the charging station. It may be the upwards of 158 degree Fahrenheit charging cable.
We don’t know. What we do know is that GM and the Obama Administration are repeatedly denying what appears to be increasingly obvious.
And the resulting damage keeps mounting.
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Comment by cornelius van sant on May 14, 2012 at 11:49am So now you are going to start picking on Donna. Leave her alone bully boys. You will don't' support what you say. You imply others are lying but will not deal with challenges to your statements.
In denial of the volatility of the lithium problem, you love to troll the site and pick on others. Well you will not get away with it with me. I challenge you both, once again - Just what "half truths am I guilty of? You claim I lie but will not answer challenges directly. Back up your idiocies! C'mon clown boys, Got nothing better to do than to bully people with you illogical narcissistic ramblings?
Comment by William T. Clark on May 14, 2012 at 9:40am Care to elaborate on that Donna? I don't quite follow you. I did take it that you could care less about pollution am I correct?
We're going to save the planet by burning up the ozone and exterminating people...sheesh, greeners!!
Comment by cornelius van sant on May 14, 2012 at 12:24am Clark dude, you shut up; you got nothing. You cannot name the "untruth" and are nothing but a big mouth clown boy. Go home to momma "free thinker" LOL.
Comment by William T. Clark on May 14, 2012 at 12:14am Corn, dude, just shut up. You were just wrong and now I'm adding pathetic.
Comment by cornelius van sant on May 13, 2012 at 10:52pm These clowns have stil not told me just what my "untruths" are. Just what are they? They dance, they attack, they are "free thinkers" - a colloquialism liberals use to show they are supposedly the only ones who can think freely. So come on out of your obfuscation and tell us boys, just what are my untruths? There are none. You have nothing but diarrhea of the mouth.
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on May 13, 2012 at 4:32pm I hate to disagree with all of you on TRUTH.
Ask yourself why there is a "law or court rule" that when sworn in, you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Think deep: A court room is not where the truth wants to be displayed ever. Lawyers are nothing more than mercenaries for each side. You hire your mercenary, the other chap (or the Prosecurtor) hires or is that side's mercinary. The best distortion of truth or evidence wins the argument; unless there has been a pre-agreement with the Prosecurtor and the Judge to throw the case. Then the truth is irrelevant.
What do you do in such a court room drama. If you swear to tell the truth, and you start telling the truth which stings your opponent, that oppenents mercenary (lawyer) objects, and shouts down your mercenary. You get left setting with either a silly grin on your face (you gave away your right when you hired the damned mercenary to begin with), or you leave the jury or decision maker with a half baked thought that could actually be false.
And, because you swore to the "truth issue", you get locked up for perjury.
If you think through the drama scenario, you will find that the best response to the Ballif would be to respond, "No I will not swear to tell the truth ... etc", until a baseline is established in this court on this case of what the truth is? The baseline would involve discussing what is the truth as seen by the Judge, by the Opponent and by you. You see, a case could simply be like the Zimmerman case. The real truth is that one individual tried to take another's gun and got shot for trying. Al and Jessie quickly distorted that, along with Obozo (looks like my son), to make it a racial issue. Zimmerman most probably got mad and told the special prosecutor to go get effed, leave him alone.
The Special prosecutor to tell the truth, is most probably using a Government Office to illegally prosecute Zimmerman.
So, what is the truth in this matter?
That's about how it works in a court room all the way down to a traffic ticket. Judge, "I trust my deputies"; Sherriff to deputies - "your quota this month is to raise $15,000 for the county. Where is the truth.
Bottom line, there is no truth when dealing with any government employee - best to keep your mouth shut other than tell them to eff off. Then you may have a chance in a court.
So, many of you call it half truth, reality, whatever. "Do not believe what you hear, and only half of what you see?"
Comment by William T. Clark on May 13, 2012 at 2:52pm Comment by William T. Clark on May 13, 2012 at 2:51pm Comment by cornelius van sant on May 13, 2012 at 11:14am © 2013 Created by Judson Phillips.
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