Schwarzenegger to Detroit: "Get Off Your Butt" on Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

[boogiebuddy01]

great to see a politician actually saying something meaningful

[FiREFLYSerenity408]

A FAILED governor.

[placebo4yo]

we don't even need petrol anymore. We have the technology to even power trains magnetically. The government is draining us to our last dollar.

[nyer070]

This scumbag has got to be one of the most retarded people I have ever seen in my life. he is seriously mental...

[necessaryevil101]

yeah got real quiet around here didnt it lmao

[tnguyen318]

Go Arnold!!!!

[damaged01]

Terminator has spoken

[psychotichealth11]

I'm in the market for one. Doing my due diligence at fasteconomicalcars (.) com

[shanksy67]

DETROIT, i will make them DEADTROIT !

[Darryld1]

Or is this the car he's referring to? In which case, I couldn't have one if I wanted one.

youtube (dot) com/watch?v=87CEr9IP4fI&NR=1

[Darryld1]

Is this the electric car he's referring to? If so, I want one!!

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[supermarioex]

Global warming hoax or not. We still ain't doing the planet any good by using fuel.

[kuvceebxab1]

well done arnold.....

[nickchirco]

Arnold lied about the billboards, i live in metro detroit and ive never seen such things

[tnguyen318]

Arnold is a bad ass Governor yo!!! 

[KrazyKunuck101]

I'm just going to be a massive dick and keep driving my BMW 850i

[shivercanada]

YEAH!! Tesla's new car coming soon is SERIOUSLY INCREDIBLE at a great great price! That baby will be MINE.

[SvrchovaneCechy]

I do not share his imbecile joy for Blue Priuses...

[nickchirco]

Electric cars stall in cold weather, the testing facility my brother works at found that out. Too bad global warming has been found to be a big hoax anyways!!! Detroit makes the best cars in the world

[SakoTGrimes]

Um, how exactly does an electric motor stall? Does it, say, go to zero RPM while the car is stopped?

[nickchirco]

@SakoTGrimes no the gets cold enough to cause to not put out enough energy, besides id rather be driving my chevy suburban than a tesla if i ever got into an accident.

[SakoTGrimes]

@nickchirco Enjoy the false sense of security.

[nickchirco]

@SakoTGrimes so if you were in a collision between a camry and a suburban youd rather be in the camry???

[SakoTGrimes]

@nickchirco Yep.

[unarmedvictory]

I love this he states was one of the first owners of the tesla, and loves the environment that is awsome.... remember when he was one of the first owners of a hummer ....... the fuel sucking mass poluting machine.... lol

[nickchirco]

@unarmedvictory i guess they better give all of the soldiers camrys to drive in the dessert, we wouldnt want to hurt the environment right?

[unarmedvictory]

@nickchirco only way to save the environment is to kill all humans, but I never said that hummers were bad, just that politicians are full of crap, and yes hummers do have large fuel consumption, bring back the DDEC 2 before the emission crunch and that is what I call an engine

[DanFrederiksen]

get down! : )

[cstearns21]

What has he ever really done again, besides not learn how to speak proper English?

[djassimilator]

ARNOLD is great he should run America it would be go for the world.

[M0k3yBoi]

@djassimilator Yeah... And he should run the UK, Our prime minister is doing a shit job and hes going to get out voted next election

[djassimilator]

anyone could do better than our fuck up un elected so called leaders arni could do better i'm sure

[anolmec]

Detroit back to Arnold......if you EXCLUDE the daily pollution created to charge the batteries, EXCLUDE the pollution used to create the massive battery bank, and EXCLUDE the pollution TO DISPOSE the batteries, EXCLUDE the pollution TO CREATE THE PLASTIC used to construct this POS, then you have a point. Maybe you should try to figure out how "Calyfornia" is going to pay its bills. Congrats on the free car Tesla gave you

[mish45]

North American Cars and Trucks are JUNK. New or used..

[nickchirco]

@mish45 and this is why if i got into an accident with your piece of shit foreign car againt my chevy suburban youd be dead. Foreign cars are so much nicer with their massive recalls right?

[botchedonce]

He is saying what should be said. Its been how many years since the development of the combustion engine and Detroit has not been able to advance! Then die. And don't whine about it when others can do a better job.

[nickchirco]

@botchedonce i pick to ride in my suburban to run over the little electric car!

[mptrax]

oh yeah !

[wyecee]

Ah-nohld Schwaaz-ooohh-"nigga"

[DerPoltergeist13]

I really want to hear him use a movie line in a speech.

[TheDarkHellboy]

Arnold is the BEST!!! he just succeeds in everything he does!!!

[motorcitymadman48066]

arnold...get off you're butt balance you're own states budget and worry about you're own shit, cali is not that far off from being detroit's equal or michigans for that matter, you are a shitty actor and an even worst politician, you're really not part of the solution you are the problem, all of you politicians are! i find it funny that california and michigan both have foreign born govenors and are the 2 worst states to be in right now! dont just buy american vote american

[shempone]

when you have proof, I will listen to what you have to say, but untill then... shut the fuck up

[cgrochanc]

I really miss the Arnold of old times performing the Terminator character. But I have to admit that this idea of the electric car is awesome. All the world criticized USA for not being an environment friendly country. Discarding any order "hidden reason" for the fabrication of this car, this is the chance that USA needed to be pioneer in green subjects. Not only debating about this real problem (our planet is really sick) but doing it. Congratulations.

[nickchirco]

@cgrochanc global warming has been proven false buddy, do your research!!!

[macdogq]

That girly man!!

[sopka1985]

what do you mean? :)

[macdogq]

It seems as if it's really difficult to determined if he is a liberal or conservative, when he's in a conservative party. Maybe he just don't really want people to know whe he really is. I don't know.

[DerPoltergeist13]

He's neither. He's Arnold. He seems to do what he thinks is best from situation to situation, which is good if you ask me because party bias makes things slow down and go wrong.

[hatedezus]

DICKHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigheadwop]

California piece of shit pussy! Trader, gets elected on being conservative and now is the biggest Liberal in the land.

[goma3]

California has a very serious emissions problem and so does the rest of the world for that matter. Just because you don't believe in global warming, doesn't mean it's not here. California is already feeling massive droughts and agricultural productivity has already been hit. Greenhouse gases are very serious problem. I congratulate Arnold for doing what's right for the people, not for his party.

[imshakinitboss]

I'd like to buy one too.....but at 90K it's just another toy for the wealthy to tool around in.

[stillrob420]

fucking BS, the big 3 would have no problem getting of gas IF the govt WOULD LET THEM! See they dont let you know that they actually dotn want to get off oil untill the last drop, oil companies tell our govt how its going to be, Arnold knows this but still uses it to continue the lie, Fuck him and anyone else who isnt smart enuff or brave enuff to say this truth, fuck you terminator actor fuck

[Strettger]

Hang on I'm calling bull on this, Tessla is built in Hethel....

Thats in Britain.

[slbiggs36]

They don't have to get off their butt because Barak "Change" Obama is going to let them vampirize our tax dollars with a bailout.

[thefriendsociety]

when i hear arnold say tesla i expect him to pull out a tesla gun and announce himself as the new tesla master and turn heel

[ChicagoColdWarrior]

"Never done a car before"

"DONT LET OFF STEAM, DETROIT"

hahah at "Arnold to Detroit"...and "0-60 in 3 seconds" ...motherfucker isnt that dangerous!!!??? You are going to try that in California?!!

This guy is amazing. Classic America.

[nickchirco]

@ChicagoColdWarrior and the car batteries last how long???

[recliner9876]

i love arnold...obama should put him in charge of sorting out the dumbasses in the big 3

[JohnRhysMusician]

Schwarzenegger is a horrible governor. He has let conservatives down. Now, its not all his fault, the Democratic legislature is a pain in the butt, but he has no backbone. California got a bailout too so I wouldn't be talking.

[goldgrif]

yellin about detroit is idiocy, ever since the repubs/conservs had reagn in the house the energy lack of plan has led us down this path and instead of being smart and using tech appropriate to needs, instead of pushing exploration and experimentation, they suck on oil believe liars, reagan pulling down the solars should have been a treasonous act, the socalled economics of the time was the fact we have subsidized oil, instead of subsidizing alternates since the 80s

[jsaulgodoy]

i can imagine arnold choaking the gov of detroit, saying "DO IT NOW!!" "TAELLL!!!"

"ILL KILL YOU, ITS ALL ABOUT KELLYFORNIA!!!"

[ou812rh]

This guys a peice of shit wimp who cant close that damn border thats causing all these problems!

[goldgrif]

cant and wont close it, closing the border is not the problem

the problem is the repubs/conservs are not interested in the long term survival of the planet or our species, they care for their own rhetoric, their own noise, they believe they have the only correct way of being, if our system was adaptable and intelligent it could survive illegals, survive any true threat, even terrorists, they are enthralled with some fantasy of reality

[HowTheWorldWorks]

Milton Friedman would be ashamed of him.

[sdegroot1]

Arnold mentioned Tesla Motors. Nikola Tesla was destroyed by JP Morgan who had interests in fossil fuels and much of the infrastructure we used now. Tesla's ideas would've made us independent of petroleum.

[smakdoubt]

oh the irony borders on horrifying. i used to like the human race, we need more free thinkers like arnie to restore our integrity and worth to the planet.

[stonereflex]

lol its a big joke. GM actually started an electric car line way back but destroyed them all to eliminate any compitition for big oil.

watch: Who Killed the Electric Car?

We could have had clean energy looong ago, just look at nikola tesla

[Consumerofknowledge]

@stonereflex Gesh. Quote directly form Rockefeller himself: "Competition is sin."

[boltjet135]

@stonereflex electric vehicles have been around for as long as internal combustion engine

[BigT1113]

actually Gm did Not start the electric car. The founder of the "electric" car was Ferdinand Porsche way back in 1900.

[stonereflex]

@BigT1113 i didnt mean that GM 'invented' the electric car.. they started an electric car LINE... lol

[Fike2308]

He should crush the puny weaklings in Detroit.

[nickchirco]

@Fike2308 and when when the detroit built suv runs over his puny tesla, who'll be crushed?

[Fike2308]

Go Arnie.

[Sammydepammy]

The irony of the story is that goverments urge carmanufactors to switch to alternative sources,while at the same time the are the collecting money,pushing oildrums around.tax. national budget.

one can not live without the other.

giving them money is pure life support.

even without a economic crisis.

they are holding on to there last oilstrawe.

[Isabella8466]

It's possible to produce a car that gets 700 miles per gallon of gasoline.

Unfortuneately, this is not a viable product in the near present, and is subsidized, losing brand credibility in today's market.

[chicagoken]

Tesla's are great car's Arnold. However, they cost $110,000 which is a bit steep for your average working class stiff.

[fdh2006]

I think the point is that an electric car can be made that doesn't sacrifice performance.

[felixq78]

A great President? He is a NAZI.

[LI0N0FTHEBRAVE]

For a moment, I actually thought this was a car advertisement.

[Nwildchild]

I cant take him seriously. I tried, but I can't.

[proteanview]

The driver of a Hummer reprimanding auto makers for not making fuel efficient cars. Oh, the irony. It doesn't get any better than this.

[brandonlau]

He doesn't drive a hummer anymore, he denounced it in 2006

[suzhouhe]

I thought he still has a few Hummers, but he converted one to run on biodiesel. Or something.

[suzhouhe]

OK, correction...according to Wikipedia, he's converted one Hummer to hydrogen and another to biodiesel. I can't remember how many he has total, but I think it's around five or six.

[Isabella8466]

Arnold ... let's talk pricing.

[calvinjones]

pricing is the issue but its the same as with computers, the new options and high end processos cost a lot to start with but by the tme ten million have been sold the price is comming down...the price for electric cars isnt going to come down if there arent a few companies and making them and competing.

[creten69]

arnold i appreciate how you had all the electric cars ready to go in 2003,your awsome,the frieken house said no,arnold rocked the boat and they couldnt handle it.He would make a great pres

[jojo808]

thats a maverick example.

[fearfullpeople]

Hey GM! You clearly only care about money. How about offering us your electric car you killed to sell hummers. That would make you some serious money right now.

[jojo808]

they're scrambling now. Detroit doesn't need a bailout.They need to ween themselves off the teet of Oil and make the cars we want ,but they are in the business of manufacturing Gas burners and have spent billions just to keep up the Charade that it's the Only choice for us . Palin will try to perpetuate this BS ,thats my word. Think of buying an e-car & solar or wind charging at home.. . You pay once and thats it. They can't stand this. We and They need to wake up to FREE ENERGY.

[sugarpuddin88]

Lets reward the industries that make big mistakes

Because America is a socialist country for corporations!

That way America will be completely unable to compete in the world economy

[runswithscissorsalot]

*said*

[runswithscissorsalot]

i agree with everything he says