My point was that it may not be political at all or have anything to do will oil.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 8, 2017, at 11:58 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 8 Mar 2017 at 6:50, paul dove via EV wrote: >> >> To me it is quite understandable why automobile manufacturers do not want to >> make electric vehicles. If I have a company making something I wouldn't want >> to government to tell me I had to make something else. > > Of course! Nobody wants to be told what to do. But that's not the way life > is; we don't live in our own little bubbles. What we ,do and ESPECIALLY > what big corporations do, affects other people. When your product affects > the public welfare and/or human health, it's going to be regulated. It has > to be. That's government's job. > > I may be wrong, but AFAIK nobody has said to GM in so many words, "you have > to make EVs." Now, maybe EVs are the only and/or best way to accomplish > what the laws require of them, but that's not the same thing. > > If GM wants to develop wind-up cars or wind-powered cars or flywheel-storage > cars or whatever cars, and they accomplish the same regulatory ends with > these approaches, nothing's stopping them (except perhaps issues of > practicality and/or marketability). > >> I think new companies need to start up making electric vehicles and >> just let Detroit slowly die like Kodak. > > There I agree 100%. There's a reason that IBM, Remington Rand, and > Burroughs weren't the ones who developed the first practical personal > computers. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
