| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Sodfather,)
</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (GreatWyrm of Babylon,)
Coperate mentality only spans 5 years maximum. They have been trained that way. The industrial world is putting so much attention on attention to detail that long term thought is being bred out of the species.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Exactly. What's in it for big business? GM? Ford? How will they benefit from throwing out all of their expensive manufacturing equipment and buying all new equipment that can handle building new, fuel-cell, hemp oil, or what have you type cars?
Exactly, they won't - actually, they'll lose a hell of a lot. That's the main reason that we have not switched yet: it's not in these huge companies' best interests to forget what they know and throw away all that they already have to go after something new. I think government action will be required to get the non-gasoline automotive ball rolling, because, unless the president of the EPA becomes the owner of Ford, a car company CEO could care less about the environment as long as he's not losing money.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
automotive companies also have a gentleman's agreement not to raise fuel efficiency. ford was preparing to break said agreement (under the management of bill ford and nasser) and drastically increase the fuel economy of it's vehicles, much to the chagrin of the other big auto companies. but then the firestone/explorer debacle cost ford an incredible amount of money and time. |