lcalarea47 @dslextreme.com wrote:
> my question is the big 3 auto makers, getting big bucks to retool?
> why not just convert the cars they are making now [gas to hybrid] to all
> hybrids or electric, just change the drivetrain? use same bodies?
The alcoholic doesn't want to stop drinking. HE doesn't have a problem
-- YOU have the problem. He wants someone to support him, so he can
continue drinking the way he always has.
I don't think the auto companies have yet come to grips with their
addiction. Their past ways of doing business don't work any more. Money
won't fix it. If they get government money, they will spend it to keep
doing things the way they've always done it. They won't change until
they *have* to change, or die. And even then, they may well choose to
DIE rather than change!
The death of a company is traumatic; but it does not mean the death of
the people working for it. The same number of cars are going to get
built and sold no matter who builds them. If GM goes bankrupt, its
plants will probably be bought by other carmakers, and their employees
will be building Toyotas instead of Chevys.
In my parody story "The Grinch Who Sold Green-ness", I cast the Grinch
as a car company CEO. He has an epiphany, when he realizes that he
should be building the cars *people* want, rather than the cars *he*
wants to build.
--
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget the perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in -- Leonard Cohen
--
Lee A. Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, leeahart_at_earthlink.net
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