Toyota just announced its plug-in hybrid is ready for road testing. This potential product could be a huge step forward for America and one giant leap backwards for American auto manufacturers. Sure, Ford and GM are promising to have the same product available by 2010, but if you believe that I have stocks in The Big Three I’d like to sell you. We’ve heard it before and they aren’t able to deliver. Meanwhile, Toyota and Honda are gaining market share faster then a Corvette can accelerate on 795 at 2 a.m. At the same time Rep John Dingell. (D-Mich), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is fighting his party’s effort to increase auto mileage standards. I can appreciate his effort to fight regulation. Yet it’s laughable how the Japanese are eating the Big Three’s lunch by creating… read more
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I hope they outperform and cost less than the hybrids that Toyota and Honda have been putting forth. They had to cut production, because of low sales. Until these hybrids are more economical and perform more like cars that the American public are used too, they will continue to buy foreign oil.
Never mind the idea of drilling for our own oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Anwar then, eh Andrew?
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