Heidi Creselious: Capitalists hate change. They hate using capital for non capital uses. Even demonstrating in real life that environmental emissions control produces a positive and new income stream they fought changes un til congress mandated themVoluntarily caving in to pressure sets a Bad Precedent and corporations hate Bad Precedent.Moving to higher cost lower profit per unit cars means the corporation would have to develop a new business model and sell that model to its stock owners, and more importantly to their labor unions to ask for wage and benefit concessions in return for more job security. dangerous and scary for the CEO facing the loss of that $12million in bonuses and perks.Pretty much nothing short of federal mandates will force corporate bbureaucracies to make any change at all. The US auto companies would rather fail than change their economic model from big gas guzzlers to electric cars....Show more
Lyman Gauld: Because, enviros don't have an! ything to sell, the only thing they can do in order to make those of us who do not believe in their particular religion is to threaten us with surcharges in the way of taxes and fees if we do not comply. What a surprise, their ideas are soundly rejected by the American People. Sure, we want to preserve the environment, no we do not want to trust their extremist ideas in order to protect that same environment.
Bob Nakamoto: Who was the ****** with the last answer? He doesnt want change he wants to **** the environment in the *** like he ***** his grandma.Sorry i went off a bit. LolAnyways, you are on to the very thing that we need to get change going through large corporation. You cant force GM to make a fuel efficent car. And its kinda rough to try to force them to change. Luckly we have a wonderful shortage of oil coming in the next few decades causing oil prices/gas prices to rise. The market will naturally move toward more fuel efficent vehicles or alternati! ve fuel.As much as a large corporation hates to make a change ! they have to otherwise they will end up going out of business. And like i said soon to be changing market conditions will help make this change. This is why we dont need to drill for more oil. We will run out eventually so we need to just man the **** up and start changing. Sure we could drill more oil but it will postpone the change that has to happen. And actually the quicker we start to be more environmentally friendly the quicker we will start dominating the market. Once again if GM develops a nice alternative fuel vehicle, they will already be ahead of the game when oil prices skyrocket.Anyways to your question. I dont think an environmentallist is quite an inventor or car manufacturer. They understand the environment and can recommend thing that need to happen but they can just go make a car company and build hydrogen vehicles. The only ones with the cash and capabilities to make a better product are the ones on top the market now. They just lack the proper ! mindset....Show more
Jannette Kotz: That's exactly what was done to stop acid rain. It is the fiscal conservative's approach to environmental problems: Cap and Trade. (Unfortunately, the fiscal conservative party of Reagan is now long gone.)To make it work, there has to be an economic benefit. Most environmental problems are "externalities", meaning that are external to the business decisions made by profit-oriented business managers. Take your example of mpg: there are many technologies that can improve mpg, but they are more expensive to put in cars. If only the cost of gasoline is the primary benefit then businesses and consumers have little incentive to change: the price of cars is so great compared to the price of gasoline. But if we as a society decide that burning gasoline has other costs -- such as smog and/or climate change -- then we have to find a way to build that cost into the decision process.If something is free, then it is abused. (If hamburg! ers were free, how many would you want? If water was free, how much wo! uld you use?) If something is costly to everyone, but no one has to pay, then there is no economic incentive to fix it....Show more
Monroe Rainey: Some do, T. Boone Pickens has been heavily investing in wind for years. Toyota has they hybrid, while US auto companies shunned it, now they are trying to play catch up. The way I see it, US corporations would rather spend billions convincing us to buy what they want to produce because they have a higher profit center (gas engines have a lot more parts to wear out than electric) then to become industry leaders and give us what we need. The only reason we don't have air quality as bad as China right now is because we put laws in place to protect our air quality. Corporations would rather pollute the air and sell us air filters too....Show more
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