Comments on: We cry over spilled oil, yet subsidize the production of ultra-polluting cars

By: Officespace

Officespace — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:54:55 +0000

yes, yes, yes just continue to cry over the spoiled oil at the same time use ultra polluted cars and use other ships which have the same potential to blow up like this ones… go on destroy the environment

By: The1eyedman

The1eyedman — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:04:49 +0000

We cry over spilled oil, yet subsidize the production of ultra-polluting cars
Interesting, Mr. Easterbrook is letting the cat out of the bag.
Very little effort seems to be made by either the Federal Authorities or the US Domestic auto manufactures to reduce the fuel consumption of the automobile.
The reserves of hydrocarbon fuels are limited, yet sales of gas guzzlers’ and profit are paramount and every effort is made to ensure status quo.
i.e., public transport is virtually non-existent and urban sprawl is a must, thermally efficient buildings are in real terms virtually non-existent.
Yet we are continuously assured, all is well and we have many committees working to resolve these issues.
Maybe, those in office need to sober up and escape from the dogmas of all will be well if we just have faith and carryon in the same old way. !

By: STORYBURNcom2

STORYBURNcom2 — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:31:34 +0000

They should make the BP CEO get out there on the water to clean up his mess

http://storyburn.com

By: LucidOne

LucidOne — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:02:18 +0000

Since apparently European drivers are so environmentally conscious and efficient, and American drivers/consumers so greedy and environmentally destructive, how do you explain that some of the fastest cars in the world can be driven in Europe, but not US. Or, for that matter, that the US has stricter emissions guidelines than Europe. And finally, that many European highways have almost no speed limit. Hmmm, sounds like Europe should tend to its own yard before it comments on ours.

By: 4gatti

4gatti — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:38:10 +0000

Having lived in Europe for the last 26 years, where the gasoline already costs around five dollars a gallon and most of the large highways are toll highways, I can’t help but be impressed with the total obliviousness of some of your readers not to mention the arrogance with which they defend their “right” to consume the majority of the world’s resources and their “right” to basically ruin the planet..

By: MarcoEuropean

MarcoEuropean — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:51:45 +0000

I think I understand what the author mean with this story. The problem here is that this situation in the Golf of Mexico is that pollution its wasted and has a huge environmental impact on Our Planet. Wasted in the sense of no energetic benefit is taken from that. In the case of our automotives the pollution that they make, we all convert that energy into mobility and consequently in pollution. The automotive industry is part of a huge economic cycle, which could influence Goverments taxes reveneus, and employments per example. I think thats why they are subsidized. The solution to the automotive issue here is in theory simple. Don t let people built where they want (away from city centres) and don t allow them to use freely they private car to move inside the city centre. There are political measures which used together could contributed to fight sucessfully this increasely big problem that we all face in the World. The question here is the personal benefit or the sociaty benefit! Which should be first? In my opinion the sociaty! As it was allways tought to me “My freedom ends in the begining of others” and “freedom comes with grater responsability”.

By: Rukaribe

Rukaribe — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:43:43 +0000

This article is ridiculous. GM has been doing amazing things lately. They have the most fuel efficient cars in the world and soon the Chevy Volt will set the bar for plug in hybrids. If anything they are the greenest car company in the world now. All you did was focus in on one very specific car that no one buys. So what if they make this one car? It’s for a specific market of people who want it and will go to any car company to get it. So it’s good that GM is making it to make money for the tax payers. They are more than making up for it with their other fuel efficient cars. Are you really going to write this whole article and ignore the fact that every single GM ad now is about how fuel efficient their cars are? It’s like they woke up at GM and put all their smart engineers on making their cars fuel efficient and they have almost gone over board. This is such a cynical article just looking for something to bitch about and I hate cynical people. Give GM some credit for the fuel efficient cars they have made and don’t just focus on one tiny irrelevant bad car.

By: Art_In_Seattle

Art_In_Seattle — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:42:41 +0000

In response to “Mike_S1″….I beg to differ. GM (and the rest of the industry) aren’t “trying to recover by creating cars consumers want”….they’re creating cars THEY can make the greatest profit on per unit sold, and brainwashing…er, I mean marketing to create a demand for them.

I think most of us know, in our heart of hearts, that the Age of the Automobile is nearly over. This may be the last year that the price of gas sees the south side of three bucks a gallon in the US, and governments are struggling to find enough revenue to maintain the roads and other infrastructure that each-in-his-own-steel-box transportation requires, much less build more. Let’s see how much most people will be able to afford to drive if they have to pay the entire, real cost of doing so out of pocket. The auto industry knows this, so they and their more immature customers are indulging in one final hurrah of petroleum-powered excess before the hammer falls.

By: iflydaplanes

iflydaplanes — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:51:15 +0000

I am a very proud owner of a 2001 Pontiac TransAm that employs a 5.7L V8 LS1 engine putting out 305 horsepower. I would not give it up for anything. Well no let me not lie. I would only if I could get a 2001-02 TransAm with the WS6 package. Six speed manual transmission with ram-air boosting horsepower to 315. Sleek and sexy. As such, I know it is not my place to complain about fuel costs. It is my choice to own the car so I don’t complain.

@AmericaninCan1, you don’t live in NY I wager. Where I live on Long Island we (myself included)average at least 10mph above the posted speed limit on any road. Law enforcement is powerless to have any serious enforcement of it due simply to the sheer volume of traffic. In my 15 years of driving I have recieved only one speeding ticket.

I am not saying it is a good thing at all, just to point out that simply posting a speed limit does not mean it will be followed or that law enforcement will be able to do much to deter those who break it.

One last thought… only $62K for the CTS-V with 556 ponies under the hood? That is quite a bargain!

By: alinsaviuc

alinsaviuc — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:46:17 +0000

I bought my SUV a few years ago when not many were so concerned about the climate change, or at least I wasn’t aware at that time. I paid $50,000. So if the government is going to give me my money back I would be more than happy to buy a new green car, otherwise I am not going to spend another $35,000 for it.