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The Real Volt Fire Was Politics

General Motors chairman and CEO Dan Akerson will defend the company's Chevrolet Volt today, telling Congress the obvious: election-year jaw flapping can destroy a car faster than a crash test. In his five-page written testimony before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee obtained by The Detroit News, Akerson rejects the idea that GM built the Volt at the request of the Obama administration (which should be fairly obvious to anyone who knows the history of the vehicle, who advocated for it at GM and when, and how long it takes to design such a machine.)

"The Volt is safe. It's a marvelous machine. It represents so much of what is right at GM and, frankly, American ingenuity and manufacturing," Akerson's testimony reads. Amen.

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