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MINI's Euro lineup to burn less fuel, run cleaner {Autoblog}
May 25th 2007 3:39PM I would buy a Mini D in a second! Please bring that sweet machine to the US.
LA Auto Show: Stupidity from environmentalists, headline writers following Rick Wagoner's speech {Autoblog Green}
Dec 1st 2006 5:13PM Mike Magda thanks for the Op-Ed; it's to bad you couldn't report both sides of the story. Like why environmentalist might have a problem with GM (see for instance "Who Killed the Electric Car"). The following quotes just a examples of Magda's skewed reporting:
"two environmental activists hijacked the podium";
"Wagoner moved in to reclaim his rightful spot in front of the microphone";
"Wagoner handled the rude interruption with dignity and poise";
Hey Mike, write about cars; why they are cool, novel, or crap. GM has it's own PR department you don't need to shill for them.
LA Auto Show: Two-peat! GM wins LA Design Challenge again {Autoblog}
Nov 30th 2006 8:06PM --John Neff--
You must be joking.
Quote: "The greenest HUMMER ever conceived, the 02 would never be a candidate for a green washing." WTF
Dude this "car" is the definition of "green washing".
Tell me who's really putting on worthless publicity stunts? :)
Wikipedia says:
Greenwash (a portmanteau of green and whitewash) is a pejorative term that environmentalists and other critics use to describe the activity of giving a positive public image to putatively environmentally unsound practices. The term first arose in the early 1990s (an early use of the word appeared as the title of an article in the 1991 March/April issue of Mother Jones magazine).
Corporations claim that the promotion of free markets policies, new technology and economic growth are essential to promoting sustainable development, and increasingly claim that they are more environmentally aware. Critics, however, claim that there is little evidence transnational corporations are substantially changing their behavior despite their rhetoric; and they claim that many corporations remain the primary creators of environmentally damaging and unsustainable technologies. Greenwashing is thus a deceptive marketing technique only.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_washing
LA Auto Show: Green protesters return armed with bikinis and board shorts {Autoblog}
Nov 30th 2006 4:26PM Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Environmental protesters crash Rick Wagoner's keynote {Autoblog}
Nov 30th 2006 3:40PM #55 Daniel your post is a laudable description of current technologies that can extricat our loved ones from forgein wars, and still allow us to enjoy our cars.
Environmental protesters crash Rick Wagoner's keynote {Autoblog}
Nov 30th 2006 3:30PM #46
Lithous out of curiosity what do yo do for a living? I work in an Emergency Room, I see and treat terrible crap all day, I come here to read about cars. Your post seems so bias against working people and your answer so narrow minded that once again you miss the point completely, this is a blog about cars!
I asked you to talk about cool American cars and you can't.
"Where are the cool, fast, sexy, efficient American cars?" I said.
You answered: "Where are the sexy Japanese cars?"
That's a non sequitur, and a straw-man argument! Your question does not follow from mine, and you're asking another question to distract from the first! The question is simply, "Where are the cool, fast, sexy, efficient American cars?"
I'll skipping all you're computer rambling because again you're off topic and getting back to cars. I used the Vectra to make the point that many of our American cars are crap. TopGear presenters can't even say the name of the car they hate it so much. I don't give a crap about "badge engineering", just make a good car. I'll keep buying used Bimmers till American cars don't suck.
The rest of your post is off target and rife with more flawed arguments and logic. By the time you do get back on topic you just put you foot in your mouth! You say: "Why would GM even start the EV-1 if they wanted to drag their feet? That makes no sense."
Dude, go see "Who Killed the Electric Car?".
The movie lays it out, and it a impassioned call for "cool, fast, sexy, efficient American cars" and about the groups that killed them: GM, Hummer crazed consumers, C.A.R.B., Oil Companies.
Lets talk about cars, not your favorite corporation.
I love cars!
This space shouldn't be about politics, just cool cars.
Environmental protesters crash Rick Wagoner's keynote {Autoblog}
Nov 29th 2006 10:15PM The intolerent views of many people who have posted here strike me as fascist.
Below is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of fascism, and it the one I mean to use here. The fascist bigots flaunting their moral superiority with bellicose personal attacks have made no clear points, other than a boring display of ignorance and intolerance. Fascist right wing crap should have no place on an AutoBlog.
Lets talk about cars, not First Amendment Rights.
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fascism |ˈfa SH ˌizəm| (also Fascism)
noun an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
• (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice. The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.
-OED
Environmental protesters crash Rick Wagoner's keynote {Autoblog}
Nov 29th 2006 7:51PM # 32 Lithous.
I think that you missed the point of my question #28: "Does anyone think CEO Wagner has built anything? Other than perhaps a golden parachute for himself?"
The point was to poke fun at Fuller for setting up a straw-man argument attacking Hudema's credibility as a "builder of things", rather than talk about the question at hand: are automakers, GM in particular, dragging their feet when it comes to aggressively pursuing vehicle efficiency.
Where are the cool, fast, sexy, efficient American cars? This is not a question of environmental politics anymore! This is a question that affects our national security, and touches the lives of all who have loved ones in the Military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and else where.
Lithous you say: "running a company that builds things easily qualifies as someone who has built things'". I don't know if I agree with this, is Wagner an engineer, a craftsman or is he a business man with an MBA? Does he get his hands bloody building things, or only when he lays off 20,000 union workers and ships their jobs to Central and South America? By your standard a project organizer is a builder. By this standard a politician who pushed through early internet legislation could claim to have built the internet! (HT Al Gore).
You also talk about the computer industry, which doesn't seem to me to be a valid comparison, but lets run with it for a second. Gates was a programer, sure he build his business on stealing and repacking other people code (ex: DOS, Windows), but initially at Harvard he was a nerd programer. Has Wagner or Fuller for that matter ever done a "hard" days work, or crunched any numbers that weren't dollars? Bill Gates and other Microsoft Billionaires have pursued numerous socially conscious ventures (like the Gates foundation and the Allen Brain Atlas). Why don't "American" auto CEOs have a conscience? Or more importantly for the car lovers build good cars. Who the hell wants to buy a Saturn Aura that's a re-badged Vauxhall Vectra?
Back to the REAL question:
Are automakers, GM in particular, dragging their feet when it comes to aggressively pursuing vehicle efficiency. Where are the cool, fast, sexy, efficient American cars?
No Blood for Oil.
Environmental protesters crash Rick Wagoner's keynote {Autoblog}
Nov 29th 2006 5:46PM Lets see more amazing cars like the Tesla, or an A8 that does 700 miles on a tank, and lets cut the personal attacks. What's so wrong with asking for energy independence? No blood for oil.
Ps. Does anyone think CEO Wagner has built anything? Other than perhaps a golden parachute for himself?
Engadget Black Friday giveaways (part 1): Xbox 360 Premium pack! {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2006 3:15PM engadget paints black friday red.
