Unbelievable I know, but this is real. It almost sounds like a good idea until you look at the list of eligble cars and see that they are almost all giant SUVs.
“Aiming to capitalize on consumer angst about the high cost of gasoline, General Motors Corp. on Tuesday said it would cap pump prices at $1.99 for customers in California and Florida who buy certain vehicles by July 5.”
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/whokilledtheelectriccar/trailer/
This is insane on the one hand, and great on the other - great in the sense that it’s obviously these auto makers desperate attempt to convince people to not stop buying the gas guzzlers, which means that they must have good reason to believe that people might actually do so. The other good thing is that they can only subsidize people for so long out of their own pockets/profits, so even if it did happen it seems like it would have to be a short term approach.
The electric car movie looks really interesting, too.
good thing none of us drive suvs now.
Prediction: the price of oil is going to slide later this year after Iran is settled.
After cheap gasoline comes back maybe they bring back the Hummer 1 which was just discontinued.
maybe hybrids will get cheaper,
maybe alternative fuel cell cars will proliferate,
maybe the US will develop it’s own oil and kiss off the mid east oil barons,
maybe we build some refineries in CAL
( we had 30 20 years, now Cal. has 16, the last one was built 37 years ago ),
maybe solar will get a boost and get in place cheaply on the grid,
maybe there will be a NASA type of national effort to develop clean energy,
maybe not.
maybe pigs will fly,
Not to get off track, but what would lead you to believe that Iran will be “settled” anytime soon, especially *later this year*?
I think Dave Z knows something. Come on let us know the secret.
Unrealted to my answer — I thought I heard that Honda also come out with a similiar cap gas price plan. Is that true?
Opinion ———————–What I beleive are two possible ways this will play out.
Re: Iran settlement later this year ?– After the November elections in the US.
A. they will bargin in good faith, Arm…( Iran’s pres. ) has nothing and he knows it. His own country is now getting frustrated with him, Iran will be the biggest loser in the sanctions game. countries are throwing massive incentives at Iran to cool it on the nuke missle, but Arm.. has to save face and will back-channel.
(and besides that I beleive the Bush administration i s guilty of many crimes. te he - just checking to see if you are still reading ).
B. someone will bomb the nuke plants, Isreal or the US ( probably AFter the November election, I thought they would have done it before memorail day but they didn’t )… IF it gets close to having nuke bombs. Isreal did it to Irag and many in Isreal have had enough. (Isreal has over 100 nukes.)
C. We now have large supplies of oil inventory in the free world.
and they are increasing.
IF Iran backs off then oil prices will come down. Gasoline prices will decline. the US dollar will strengthen against other currencies.
IF Iran gets bombed then oil prices will spike for a season. And the oil companies will make a ton of money. We will all bitch about the higher prices. The US government will talk talk and do nothing about a long lasting energy solution.
why do i always feel like i’ve dropped acid when i’m reading dave’s comments?
Wow, some of that speculation on how the Iran situation will play out (other than B, perhaps) is pretty optimistic, in the same sense that the president’s infamous “mission accomplished” aircraft carrier stage show (now over three years ago) was an “optimistic” view of the Iraq situation.
If the United States (or God forbid, Israel) does decide to take action against Iran over this, I can’t see how it would be any less messy than Iraq, and probably much more so.
*ns — its mescaline
*talk about acid — ” the president’s infamous …. ” — dragging a bush cut refernce into this….
*Any military action, I think, against Iran will be limited to bombing the nuke plants, not invading.
I am optimistic about this and think it will be resolved easily.
I think any military action (bombing or otherwise) would ignite a huge firestorm (whether you think it’s justified or not - don’t need to get into that now) in that region, which isn’t very stable to start with.
Lots of people thought the same thing about Iraq, that it would be a quick win scenario, similar to the first Gulf War. This is the reason I brought in the “mission accomplished” reference (not to Bush bash); I believe there was serious misrepresentation (or at best misunderstanding) of the complexity of the Iraq situation beforehand, and I believe that to assume that any solution to the Iran problem will be easy is to make the same exact mistake.
the bombing of the irag nuke plant by Isreal in the 80’s didn’t result in a big firestorm, except by sodom and the press.
It was simple. It isn’t always so complicated.
where’s irag
opposite the hard place
get it… between a rock and a hard place..
ok, try this…
How many Kennedy’s does it take to change a light bulb?
Two - one to hold the light bulb, one to drink until the room spins.