|
Re: Massive Oil Deposit could Increase US reserves by 10x
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oreo
Part of the reason, is big oil buys out new innovation. Brazil has no need for oil, they have always used alternate energy means to fuel their autos.
The other part, is Americans can be very lazy. Especially our auto industry. It wasn't too long ago, an American auto would only get 75k miles before major problems started to appear. Japan sent us Toyota's capable of getting 200k with no problems. The American auto industry got it's butt kicked by Japan. It always take that whipping before they straighten up.
Watch, it will be a foreign car, that will get 100 mpg, that sell like hotcakes, before the American auto industry catches on.
|
GM, until recently was the worlds largest auto seller. Why would they change when things still work? Thats just not good business. The mistake being made here is that people think they are in business to improve the environment, or save money for consumers, or save on gas. They arent. They are in it to make money. Once improving gas mileage starts making them money they will do it.
__________________
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
-Thomas Jefferson
|