Thank you Toyota hybrids
Friday, February 25, 2005
Recently, I have grown a bit
frustrated with Toyota. Why can't they make more Prius
hybrid cars? Why did the Lexus
RX400h and the Highlander
hybrid have to have their market releases pushed back?
My desire for hybrids to take over the automotive world just isn't rationale at this point in time.
Automotive experts, particularly competitors, are confident that the Prius does not make money, nor do they expect any of Toyota's next hybrids to make money either - at least in 2005. The fact is, it has been terribly expensive for Toyota to accomplish what it has accomplished with hybrids.
Basically, every expert in the world laughed at Toyota's hybrid car endeavors for years, until demand for the 2004 Prius slapped every one of those analysts in the face. And Toyota has had to go it alone, without the help of a vast supply network. So the progress Toyota has made is all the more remarkable, while the lack of progress made by almost every other auto-maker, is all the more disappointing.
Now, places like California, Canada, even the U.S. legislature are demanding that automakers take action. Hybrids have proven that there is another way, not in some fantasy future, but today.
When the CIA and Pentagon describe foreign-oil dependency and global warming as great threats to American security, how long do you wait before contributors to U.S. foreign-oil dependency and global warming are also named co-conspirators against the security of the United States?
Often GM, for example, tries to equate itself with Americana. Not my America, brother. Dumping your waste in my land, polluting my lungs, threatening the environmental stability of the world, while maintaining and supporting an oppressive, robber-barron-like foreign-oil dependency for America is not patriotic, rather the antithesis of patriotism.
America is about freedom and independence, or at least that was the idea, right? Gas-guzzling reduces freedom and independence according to the CIA and the Pentagon.
How dare American corporations risk my freedom and independence for their short term profit. If American auto-corporations represent patriotism, then I say it's time to revolt.
Thanks Toyota.
My desire for hybrids to take over the automotive world just isn't rationale at this point in time.
Automotive experts, particularly competitors, are confident that the Prius does not make money, nor do they expect any of Toyota's next hybrids to make money either - at least in 2005. The fact is, it has been terribly expensive for Toyota to accomplish what it has accomplished with hybrids.
Basically, every expert in the world laughed at Toyota's hybrid car endeavors for years, until demand for the 2004 Prius slapped every one of those analysts in the face. And Toyota has had to go it alone, without the help of a vast supply network. So the progress Toyota has made is all the more remarkable, while the lack of progress made by almost every other auto-maker, is all the more disappointing.
Now, places like California, Canada, even the U.S. legislature are demanding that automakers take action. Hybrids have proven that there is another way, not in some fantasy future, but today.
When the CIA and Pentagon describe foreign-oil dependency and global warming as great threats to American security, how long do you wait before contributors to U.S. foreign-oil dependency and global warming are also named co-conspirators against the security of the United States?
Often GM, for example, tries to equate itself with Americana. Not my America, brother. Dumping your waste in my land, polluting my lungs, threatening the environmental stability of the world, while maintaining and supporting an oppressive, robber-barron-like foreign-oil dependency for America is not patriotic, rather the antithesis of patriotism.
America is about freedom and independence, or at least that was the idea, right? Gas-guzzling reduces freedom and independence according to the CIA and the Pentagon.
How dare American corporations risk my freedom and independence for their short term profit. If American auto-corporations represent patriotism, then I say it's time to revolt.
Thanks Toyota.
