Saving the "Big 3"? ......Why?

Saving the "Big 3"?

Why?

It has been known for decades that the internal combustion engine is the single largest provider of carbons into our endangered atmosphere. These industry giants have not seen it fit to provide an alternative to gas powered engines. On the contrary, they idealized the need to have larger trucks and SUVs while ignoring their obligation to provide more fuel efficient transportation. All three manufactures have consistently put out inferior quality vehicles and then found, or had inserted, loopholes by which they were able to sidestep their warranty obligations. I am not naive enough to think that I am the only person that this has happened to. I am also fully aware that all three have been guilty of this practice. Perhaps in looking after customer complaints might have eaten into the billions of dollars in bonus funds provided for executive level members on their combined boards. It has long been obvious to the average purchaser that the concerns of these execs. were not on the global effects of their products on the ecology or on putting low cost quality vehicles into the hands of the average potential buyers. I have to wonder why they waited until an off-shore manufacturer introduced a hybrid vehicle to the market before they started looking into that potential.

Electric vehicles are being manufactured by manufacturers with much less capital venture funds that were available to the "Big 3". GM is the only one of the three who has taken a step in that direction that I know of. And the possibility of that ever making it to the marketplace is becoming ever slimmer. At the rate that plants are being closed, it's a pretty safe bet that the "Volt" will be lost. Although I believe that the "Volt" would have been a step in the right direction, I also believe it to be a couple of decades late. However, better late than never, right? I will go so far as to say that the electric vehicle will be our mainstay method of transport in the not to distant future. God bless Edison! He had it right over a hundred years ago.

In my humble opinion, if there are funds available to the auto industry, they should have the stipulation that those funds be used solely for the manufacture of hybrid type vehicles with the emphasis on electric. My choice would be an electric/hydrogen combination. It is not an amazingly new discovery to know that hydrogen can be produced on the go, thus negating the need for fuel cells or a fuel storage tank. Batteries would propel the vehicle and produce hydrogen on demand to fuel a small motor which in turn recharges the batteries. Sounds simple enough to me. Can you see the potential Ford, GM, Chrysler?

We are currently the sad owners of a 2 year old GM produced vehicle and would gladly trade back for our 12 year old Toyota.