CrossBow, The problem is not with the automakers; the problem is with the American consumers. If American consumers have a veracious appetite for small energy efficient automobiles, American (and international) car companies will line up to feed that profitable demand. That is NOT the case. And car corporations will do whatever is profitable/ easy and follow the consumers. During these profit pursuits, the fickle tastes of the consumer may change and the automobile companies will change or die (or request corporate welfare from taxpayers to stay alive).
If you want Americans to buy small European cars and structure American cities like more energy efficient European cities, American needs European gas prices, that is, $6 to $10 per gallon. Otherwise, Americans will continue to live in and love the suburban, high energy consumption sprawls--me included. I don't want to change unless I am forced to change because of high energy costs. Jason On Nov 23, 12:44 am, CrossBow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question is: should we upset the current inport/export fracas and force > American Producers to sell the technology they possess? We know they have > had this tech for years but with the bg oil buddy system it has been...sort > of repressed/ignored, and I feel, passed off as too difficult to produce > (think batteries etc,.) Really, it isn't hard to reverse engineer this > stuff. You can rent a ford in Europe that gets 40 mpgs. Why are we buying > 400 horse Hemis etc.? What is to become of our trade-ins in the next 10 yrs? > donations? recycles? > > There are several competitive cars to the Honda/Toyota subcompact > group - Mazda3 and Chevy Cobalt to name two (mazda is ford product as volvo > is gmc). They are good and the only way to get them knowledged is to > make imports harder to buy/more expensive, to dispell the myth > that imports are our best buy in the future... It is all there if they cut > the pork... > > any thoughts on this one? I have been bitching about this one for 10 years;) > > CB > -- > gnothe se auton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
