John D

Detroit Calling Washington's Bluff

Andrew ... if you research a little, GM came out with an electric car in 1990 the EV1 - Ford & Chrysler both took interest but the problem was - oil was cheap - the government didn't care about it and North Americans were not interested so the plans were scrapped - all of that R&D shot to pieces - the car companies were doing the right thing - they were looking ahead. The Japanese government however PAID for the R&D for Toyota to help produce their hybrids - because they were doing their job and looking ahead. Perhaps if the US government were to reimburse the N/A auto companies for the money they put into it - they wouldn't be in Washington now, the other thing that Washington did was to allow the Asian imports to DUMP all the cars they wanted to because they thought that the economy could take it. Since 1996, the CAW has shown just in Canada auto imports from Japan have grown 118%. But our auto exports to Japan have declined 69%. Our auto trade deficit with Japan equals $6.3 billion. For every dollar we export to Japan, we import $135. God only knows how bad it is in the USA, where is the Equal trade - it's not free trade if the same rules don't go both ways, not to mention the Korean's contribution - how can anyone think that jobs would last here when your own governments are working against THEIR own industries!!Buy an Import and DRIVE North America to DEPRESSION !!!