Big
3 Keep Begging, but Give Nothing
Wednesday,
January 31 2007
Unlike
Toyota, GM and DaimlerChrysler have not sold 1 full hybrid
car in America
"The opening round of congressional hearings this
year on global warming and alternative fuels showed one
fact is clear: The climate for automakers on Capitol Hill
is becoming increasingly unforgiving," claims the DetroitNews
this morning.
Good. Can automakers blame Congress?
According to GM, the Big 3 doesn't need an increase in
CAFE, they need more money - much, much more money. Yet,
the Big 3 have already been given billions to produce
vehicles like the EV1 and hybrid
cars, yet what has America received in return?
Increased foreign oil dependency.
Even after 9/11 and Katrina, what was GM's big news? A
redesigned line of its most fuel inefficient
vehicles. America is at war because of oil and GM is
spending 100's of millions of dollars marketing
foreign-oil dependency-increasing gas-guzzlers?
Are you kidding me?
Toyota has sold 100,000's of hybrid vehicles. GM and
DaimlerChrysler have yet to sell one full hybrid vehicle.
Instead the Big 3 have put flex-fuel capabilities on
gas-guzzlers - that have never used E85 - to avoid CAFE
penalties.
Wow! That's just great. Find a loophole to violate the law
and further increase America's foreign oil dependency. Now
that's American innovation - not innovation led by
engineers, but by lawyers!
It's time for Congress and America to move forward, to set
a path into the future that can end foreign oil dependency
and put a huge dent in our global warming emissions. If
that means a bankrupt automaker or two, then so be it.
Unfortunately, the national security and health of 100's
of millions is more important than the jobs of tens of
thousands of autoworkers.
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"Now that's American innovation - not innovation led by engineers, but by lawyers!"
I've got to hold on to that one. That's a good quote!
Mike
Good article. I don't think we went to war because of oil, I think it was an extension of the terrorist policy and a fear of what Saddam may do in the future, but I don't think oil was the driving force. Keep them coming.
Steve-
I know we didn't go to war specifically because of oil, but still there was a cause and effect relationship to oil.
If not for foreign oil dependency we would not be in Saudi Arabia. If we were not in Saudi Arabia, we would not have pissed off Bin Laden and numerous other Islamic fundamentalists.
If not for Bin Laden, the Iraq war would not have happened - at least not yet.
So there is a strong connection between our foreign oil dependency and terrorism and Iraq, aside from the fact we're funding terrorists with our cheap oil habit.