Comments on: Driven to the brink

By: Brian Foulkrod

Brian Foulkrod — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:08:02 +0000

Considering the fantasy they’ve been living in for decades, maybe the perfect vehicle might be chitty chitty bang bang…or the yellow submarine.

By: Nikkei 225

Nikkei 225 — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:36:49 +0000

The problem is the top management of those carmakers. The mission is to make fuel efficient cars but the decision makers still live in another era and are not motivated to make the green product. You need to believe in what you’re doing if you want to succeed.

By: kerry bradshaw

kerry bradshaw — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:06:42 +0000

Someone should by now have figured out that 1 million electric cars won’t affect in any detectable fashion, either this country’s oil demand or carbon emissions.
Even in the unlikely event that another million gas burning cars aren’t on the road by then, the effect would be an insignificant 1/5th of 1 percent reduction in oil demand, and much less than that in carbon emissions, probably less that 1/50th of 1 percent. Not much return for $7 billion dollars of taxpayer money. And they say Obama is not a stupid as he appears.