Top Three Automakers Show Alt-Fuel Cars at the White House in desperate bid to cover their asses
Top Three Automakers Show Alt-Fuel Cars at the White House
This little dog-and-pony show today is pitiful backtracking to cover up how badly the Big Three bungled their chance to have a piece of the alt-fuel market.
Did you know...
...that all of the big three US automakers had manufactured and sold Electric cars in California at the behest of California lawmakers between 1998 and 2003? California decided to drop their "zero emission mandate" and let automakers off the hook...just as their product started to make some headway in the market, as soon as California dropped the law, the big three came in and scooped up all their cars. They were all leased, so they just tore up the contracts and threatened the very happy drivers with grand theft auto if the cars weren't returned.
WATCH THIS MOVIE. RENT THE DVD NOW:
"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
You will be pissed. Pissed. PISSED.
You will also gloat at how karma has come back around to the big three because they could have had dominance over the hybrid and completely electric car market. Now they are struggling to stay afloat.
What really made me the most angry watching this film was the fact that I had never heard of the "EV" cars being made just for California. I had no idea. I didn't know about the "electric charging stations" being created for the drivers. I didn't know that people that drove the car LOVED the car.
As a free market proponent, I disagree with the state of California mandating that a company produce a certain kind of product. However, when the automakers started seeing the cars get popular, that's when they scrambled to destroy the market and reclaimed them. Now THAT is strange. It's obviously not in the best interest of the company to destroy a product that could have put their company at the top of the auto industry. CLEARLY...the market isn't really free if GM chose to dismantle a popular division that would have saved people thousands of dollars in gasoline, and maybe even ended the war in Iraq in the longer run since Americans wouldn't be dependent on foreign oil. I'll stop my rant with this quote from the Big Three from today:
Hey you guys...you already HAVE the technology and people in California and former employees KNOW you have the technology, you big fat liar.
And...they used to make the EV-1, the car that could have saved GM and saved American lives.
And the Main Stream Media, I have to say...it looks like all those big oil commercials that Shell, BP, and ConocoPhillips bought during the summer of 2005 bought your silence in reporting what was going on in California with the protests and the last of the EVs being taken away to be destroyed. Screw you, MSM...I thought that was why there were 24-hour news channels--to report the NEWS, you know, and watch the people's back.
This little dog-and-pony show today is pitiful backtracking to cover up how badly the Big Three bungled their chance to have a piece of the alt-fuel market.
Did you know...
...that all of the big three US automakers had manufactured and sold Electric cars in California at the behest of California lawmakers between 1998 and 2003? California decided to drop their "zero emission mandate" and let automakers off the hook...just as their product started to make some headway in the market, as soon as California dropped the law, the big three came in and scooped up all their cars. They were all leased, so they just tore up the contracts and threatened the very happy drivers with grand theft auto if the cars weren't returned.
WATCH THIS MOVIE. RENT THE DVD NOW:
"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
You will be pissed. Pissed. PISSED.
You will also gloat at how karma has come back around to the big three because they could have had dominance over the hybrid and completely electric car market. Now they are struggling to stay afloat.
What really made me the most angry watching this film was the fact that I had never heard of the "EV" cars being made just for California. I had no idea. I didn't know about the "electric charging stations" being created for the drivers. I didn't know that people that drove the car LOVED the car.
As a free market proponent, I disagree with the state of California mandating that a company produce a certain kind of product. However, when the automakers started seeing the cars get popular, that's when they scrambled to destroy the market and reclaimed them. Now THAT is strange. It's obviously not in the best interest of the company to destroy a product that could have put their company at the top of the auto industry. CLEARLY...the market isn't really free if GM chose to dismantle a popular division that would have saved people thousands of dollars in gasoline, and maybe even ended the war in Iraq in the longer run since Americans wouldn't be dependent on foreign oil. I'll stop my rant with this quote from the Big Three from today:
"Plug-in hybrid vehicles can play a significant role in our transportation future. Increased funding for domestic battery research and development can help accelerate bringing these vehicles to market," the CEOs said.
Hey you guys...you already HAVE the technology and people in California and former employees KNOW you have the technology, you big fat liar.
"Overall, we were pleased with the exchange that we had with the president and all parties came away with an understanding of the significant, positive impact that biofuels can make on the environment and in reducing our nation’s reliance on oil," they said.
General Motors chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said, "We very much share the President's vision, and we definitely see a path through to both lower oil consumption, lower amounts of imported oil, and fewer carbon emissions.
General Motors makes Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Vauxhall vehicles.
And...they used to make the EV-1, the car that could have saved GM and saved American lives.
And the Main Stream Media, I have to say...it looks like all those big oil commercials that Shell, BP, and ConocoPhillips bought during the summer of 2005 bought your silence in reporting what was going on in California with the protests and the last of the EVs being taken away to be destroyed. Screw you, MSM...I thought that was why there were 24-hour news channels--to report the NEWS, you know, and watch the people's back.
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