by Barbara Briggs, Special to CorpWatch
September 16th, 2008
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15182
Beneath Toyota’s buffed shine lies a dark undercoat. The Toyota Corporation enjoys a fine reputation for well-built cars, environmental innovation, flexible production lines and effective management practices. But in its quest for ever-increasing efficiency, profitability and growth, the world’s largest auto manufacturer has sparked a race to the bottom that, [...]
Japanese Automobile Corporations Are Better? Toyota’s Race to the Bottom
Air-powered Cars Coming to the United States
posted by Kevin Spiess @ Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9145-inexpensive-and-efficient-air-powered-cars-coming-to-us-in-2011/
Hydrogen powered cars might be the next big step up in commuter vehicle efficiency, but they still need a lot more work to really get things rolling. Coming sooner, the Air Car might prove to be a good cost-effective choice for folks who want to spend less on gas.
The [...]
A Message for Obama: Think Trains
Posted by STANLEY CROUCH
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST, New York Daily News
As posted at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388649_crouchonline21.html
While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson performs a mysterious magic act in which he shows us what a deregulated bailout looks like, some of us are trying to imagine what President-elect Barack Obama can do to turn our country away from the disastrous and corrupt [...]
GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
by Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/16-6
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with “light trucks.”
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet [...]
Official ACLUSA Statement: What Is Good for General Motors Is Not What’s Good for the Country
There was a time when Charles Wilson, the CEO of GM and soon to be Secretary of Defense for President Eisenhower, stated, “What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” Oh how times have changed. Ravaging in debt, bleeding cash, and [...]
