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Subscribe to commentsseanFeb 21st 2008 1:55PM
geeezus are the R+D depts in detroit asleep at the switch ?I'm getting really tired of reading about technological breakthroughs made by companies based outside the united states wake up
e-man9400Feb 21st 2008 2:23PM
I agree with you Sean,Wheres our technolgy at?I mean GM with the volt?Is that it?
We got to rember that this country loves oil.As long this nation keep relying on fossile.We are all going to be scuba diving in New York and San Francisco.I see chevron and BP saying there look for alternatives but were on the edge at "THIS VERY MOMENT"!
KevFeb 21st 2008 2:50PM
The very problem is revealed by the two previous comments. Look at the spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Our education system is in shambles thanks to doting parents and disinterested teachers. Now that these uneducated students have been unleashed on the United States, we are seeing the results. America will not recover from her current situation unless parents decide to be parents and not "friends" to their children and we have teachers who teach, not babysit. And while I'm on the soapbox, it will take a culture shift away from "because I want it" to "I'll be the best I can be for others."
KevinOct 13th 2008 2:48AM
No Kev the problem is the oil industry holding a gun to the American auto-makers heads to prevent alternate energy powered cars. Back in the 1990s GM had a very good EV known as the EV-1 which they eventually recalled and destroyed. The movie "Who Killed The Electric Car" has a lot of info on this scandal. America needs to start asking why half the cars in Europe are diesel-powered (bio-diesel anyone?) and why many other countries have natural-gas powered cars while here in the U.S. we are getting smoke blown up our a** about possible vehicles such as the Volt and Chrysler's EVs which "may be ready" by 2010. (Truth is they will be ready when Exxon and BP say they are and not a second sooner.)