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So Im watching tv last night and scrolld across Green Planet TV (direct tv channel 286). They basically had this show on trashing the oil companies and car companies because they are not making electric cars anymore. GM, Ford and Toyota spent around a billion dollars each to market these cars and built a small amount of them a few years ago then leased them. When all the leases were up, they took the cars back without the giving the customers the option to buy. So now all of the ex-electric car drivers are pist and demanding the cars be availible to buy. Well quite honestly, the car companies own the cars, and always have and don;t have to sell them. So I think they should get over it!
The Auto Makers claim that there is too small of a market to produce theses veichles. The big problem is that is costs them about the same to make the electric car compared to the fuel powered or hybrid car. However they can't charge enough for the car because if a consumer is going to buy a car thats going to do less than a fuel powered car, they want pay less. I agree.
These electric car people claim that there is a huge demand for the cars, and could work for 90% of drivers in Amercia. I find that to be very very un true. Think about, the cars only have a range of about 60 miles before going dead. Well obviously that wouldnt even work for 10% of the people on these forums. Another thin I think they are forgetting is the fact that we would need more power plants to create the electricity to power these cars. Well these same enviornmentalists are against nuclear power so how the hell are they going to make this work without fighting with themselves.
So when the car companies took back there electric cars, the crushed them. The people were pist because they wanted to buy them. Here's my thing: they own the cars, therefore they can do what ever they want with their property. Im guessing they knew that when these cars break down in the future the consumer would have no warranty, and have no means to get the cars repaired by the mfg as their certifed techs ae not trained to service or repair them. Im sure parts would be nearly impossible to find to.
What I dont get is how these people can demand a product to be made in a capitalist country! If these people and celebrities think that they have a massive market for these cars, shouldnt they pull their resourses together and start an electric auto comany? You think they would have some big bucks behind them with the Hollywood support. Mel Gibson who was on the documentary (God Knows how much money he has) could be a great start to get this off the ground. Heck, If I felt I had an idea for a product that could make billions, Id find away to get started, not demand another company makes it and takes home the profits. Make sense?
Again, I just don't see how a group of people feel the right to demand a product from a privatly owned company...well with the exception of GM. LOL! Its like someone walking into my real estate office and demanding that I sell them a home in Northern CA when I work in Southern CA, or hell even if they were to demand I make them a cheeseburger. I have the right to refuse my services to anyone I choose, especially if it would be non-profitable to me or it would require me to change my business model to suit them.
Of course they had no debate on the show, just their own side and opinions, which Im sure other people who might have watched the show also may have fell into their ideas of the electric car, because they can't think for themselves or ask questions.
I will agree that we have dirty air in LA, but look at all the progess our county has made in the last 5 years. Look at all the hybrids on the road. I don't like them, and would never buy one, but if people want to "do their part" then fine. Its a free country! You also have to factor that LA, even America is a small part of this planet. Global Warming has pretty much scientifically un-proven so what's their deal?
I can't make any sense of these peoples demands? Can you? Are electric cars the wave of the future? Will the electric car suit the needs of 90% of Americans. Or do I just not get it?
Dennis
Originally Posted by thumbs 
Besides, with no doors or windows you would not be isolated and less likely to flip people off. They could have nerf bars on all sides so you could just bump into each other and not do any damage like big bumper cars!
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