>Civil disobedience (and I have no problem calling this act by that >name, since the goal is most definitely civic-minded)
I wonder what the exact mechanics would be, because I think repo men would be dispatched immediately by GM. I think the only way to bring about a situation would be to hire a *very* good lawyer, or to ask if there is a lawyer who would see, honestly, such action as civic-minded, and to research what the course of action should be in order to deal with the whole thing out in the open. Again: forget about getting to keep the car, it can't happen, but I wonder if it would be taken into court custody while the legal actions take place? There might be a little precedent because some of the gen1 drrivers I think did not want to give their cars back when they were skeptical of getting them back again during the recall. (Their skepticism was partly born-out.) I wonder also if any consumer-rights organization would say that some would-be EV1 leasors were defrauded if GM deliberately delayed or prevented delivery of the vehicle? I know defrauded is a touchy word, but I'm not sure what else you'd call it if a company has the ability to deliver something to you, has told you through an employee that they'll do so as soon as possible, and then simply prevents delivery for months, for no apparent reason? I don't think you could ever find a smoking gun, in terms of an employee willing to testify to this, because if there is such a thing, I think we'd have heard from them by now. I do remember one story of someone being able to lease an EV1 very quickly because they lied and said they were a celebrity and GM wanted such people to have them. I wonder if that sort of thing would have been legally actionable under California law, if someone had chosen to make a stand on the matter, and protest their exclusion from being able to get a vehicle? That is not the only story I heard about this policy of preferring some celebrity customers over others. (My Congressman, I heard, was offered one.) With all of this talk we hear about concern about legal liability, and what actions are illegal, the lawyers didn't seem quite as concerned with the company succeeding in wasting some customers' time, and preventing CARB from collecting valid data.. If only the law recognized time as money. Maybe it does. Theft is legally wrong. I wonder if the same is true of the deliberate waste of peoples' time?
