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By: susan welborn

susan welborn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:03:51 +0000

Hopefully prices on hybrid cars will decrease in the near future.

By: ClapSo

ClapSo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:02:27 +0000

JollyRoger has good points. The price of shipping is killing globalization. There are many companies that moved production overseas that are opening plants here in the US again.

The oil price hike has had a whole host of positive effects. Mass transit ridership has increased by 20% in the city I live in. Local production for local consumption has become a rallying cry.

However, I wouldn’t count the greedy globalist corpoRATeers out yet. They are amazing in their ability to get governments to subsidize their thieving.

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:13:18 +0000

Don’t worry-China is on the cusp of an economic implosion, due to-you guessed it-the high costs of transportation. It won’t take much more to make all that cheap Chinese junk not so appealing to the average Mao-Mart shopper; the costs of fuel this year alone are adding anywhere from 9 to 15% to the cost of a Chinese-made product, and that margin is climbing.

Steelmakers are already beefing up plants in this country in spite of the recession, and down in Mexico a lot of those factories that got boarded up when everyone fled to China are being swept out and refitted. The globalization era is dead, but anything that got that big will take a while to stop jerking.

By: ClapSo

ClapSo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:21:09 +0000

Please see the film “Who KILLED the electric car” it explains why the automakers DON’T WANT to build electric cars, the REAL solution!

In the late 90’s GM BUILT and LEASED a plug in electric called the EV 1. They then DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO KILL IT. See the film to find out why…

As a 50 year old who has never owned a car, if the idiots in detroit or elsewhere build a car like the EV 1 AND SELL IT THIS TIME, even I will buy one!

The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer

By: bosskitty

bosskitty — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:14:17 +0000

Oh yeah Christopher – this is orgasmic … I salivate for an electric car. Someone (Toyota) is finally doing something besides listening. We have the technology to power a Space Station! Whats taking so long to apply this technology NOW! Sure, the prototypes are pricey … that’s just because automakers don’t have the guts to stick their necks out and make it available to everyone. Low income people are stuck with what they’ve got … they can’t run out and become fuel efficient until efficiency becomes affordable. Already they can’t afford the fuel to get to their low paying jobs … many immigrants still have to walk to work. Many of us are not far behind.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:22:45 +0000

Toyota is amazing.

Also, did you guys see Mercedes is phasing out their fossil-fuel cars by 2015?

It can be done. Now, let’s see if Detroit gets off their asses and follows the lead of Toyota and Mercedes. If they don’t, the “Big Three” may not exist in a decade.