brick
03-03-2009, 08:17 PM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg This is about taking a step back from what we think we know to find real answers. (cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=190774)
Tesla Roadster - Current king of the EVshttp://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2008_Tesla.jpgTim Smith - CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) - Feb. 27th, 2009
I know things are tough here in the US. It started with a cascading cycle of foreclosures and property values declining, first ruining the homeowners and then the banks. Ruined banks quit lending, which ruined even more banks, which also quit lending and dragged other businesses into the fiasco as well. People who had been doing just fine up to that point started losing their jobs, making them unable to perform the essential task of buying things and paying their mortgages. And now it's a full-blown disaster.
The Detroit automakers were already in trouble before any of this happened. I remember preparing to graduate with my engineering degree in 2004 after having dedicated my studies to such technologies as advanced internal combustion engines and the application thereof. It seemed like a great career path when I started it circa 2000, but I later realized that there were no jobs to be had in the US auto industry because consumers had already cooled to the idea of buying American in the face of competitive and reliable Japanese alternatives. That was more than four years before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the point at which we could no longer shrug and say "it's not that bad."... http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=190774
Tesla Roadster - Current king of the EVshttp://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2008_Tesla.jpgTim Smith - CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) - Feb. 27th, 2009
I know things are tough here in the US. It started with a cascading cycle of foreclosures and property values declining, first ruining the homeowners and then the banks. Ruined banks quit lending, which ruined even more banks, which also quit lending and dragged other businesses into the fiasco as well. People who had been doing just fine up to that point started losing their jobs, making them unable to perform the essential task of buying things and paying their mortgages. And now it's a full-blown disaster.
The Detroit automakers were already in trouble before any of this happened. I remember preparing to graduate with my engineering degree in 2004 after having dedicated my studies to such technologies as advanced internal combustion engines and the application thereof. It seemed like a great career path when I started it circa 2000, but I later realized that there were no jobs to be had in the US auto industry because consumers had already cooled to the idea of buying American in the face of competitive and reliable Japanese alternatives. That was more than four years before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the point at which we could no longer shrug and say "it's not that bad."... http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=190774