Comments on: GM Uses RAN’s Blog to Call Toyota Nazis

By: James

James — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:22:06 +0000

I was going to write a similar blog concerning this topic, you beat me to it. You did a nice job!

By: Biolyle

Biolyle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:14:32 +0000

I think that that this is a good article and the RAN should keep up the pressure

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:40:53 +0000

Yeah, this is a very very cool blog. ;-)
I just added you to my favorites.

Thanx,
Mikey

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:08:11 +0000

30 years ago, GM and all the other American carmakers, as well as the US government, got a big wake up call, that they better be putting out a car that doesn’t run on any kind of petroleum product. The gas crunches of the late 70’s should have terrified them into getting their engineers, scientists, and designers into the labs, to come up with a car that ran solely on electricity, hydrogen, water, whatever. You’d think, with all the money and brainpower at the Big 3’s disposal, that sometime within the last 30 years, they’d have managed to come up with a car that runs on a charge of electricity, as long as today’s cars run on a tank of gas. And, with all the lobbyists at their disposal, you’d think they’d have gotten the government and power companies to make as many stations where you could recharge your car or truck, as there are gas stations now. The fact that I could see this, 30 years ago, when I was all of 19, and could see the great potential for profits (what were the Big 3’s profits and sales,last year, compared to overseas car companies who are by and large making more fuel efficient cars?) as well as public good will, and apparently GM, Ford, and Chrysler AND the government, couldn’t, astounds me.
And face it, with all the things made out of petroleum products, oil companies will never be hurting for profits.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:12:16 +0000

The internet has rule about this sort of thing. The reductio ad Hitlerum argument signals the end of rational debate. It's now officially time for the automakers to stop talking and start doing.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:53:04 +0000

Whoa….We’ve definitely got some concerns with Toyota’s green credibility, but calling them Nazi’s….that’s a whole different ballgame.

I have to say, its been shocking this week to walk around the LA autoshow and see the automakers knock cameras out of my colleagues hands as we ask simple questions and witness some of the biggest companies in America publicly bash each other.

More than ever, it makes me wish they would stop fighting each other, us, and the climate and invest that energy in just doing the right thing. How about it? Stop beating up climate activists and start building clean cars.