Have you seen "Who Killed the Electric Car"? If not, I'll be glad to send you a copy (pirate). GM had a position which could have guaranteed their survival in these times but their management capitulated with big oil. They sold the Ovonics battery technology to Chevron and killed their future.
I say let them die a partial death. Take a small position by the gov't and pick an choose which divisions will survive. They could come back. But they must have a NDE first. Terry On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy Vorts, > Another " colorful" town in Texas, like Dime Box and North Zulch, is named > Nada, which, in Spanish means nothing, or por nada meaning "for nothing". > Nada was a rice farming town, but the winds of change kinda left the town > resting on the side of the road. > Towns are like industries. Someone has a dream and the imagination, energy > and resources to develope, produce and market products and the talent to > survive the ups and downs of life. However, dreams remain dreams, until they > are endowed with feet. > > GM is a type of Nada, people with dreams gained the feet to propel concepts > into GM products. Focused leadership drove GM forward. > What happened to GM?? The same thing that happened to Nada. The next > generation of leadership failed to re-conceptualize the dream. > > Each year our own group of companies work on a new product, a dream > product.. if you will. Most never grow feet.. but the dream is set forth. > This next year, the task of motivating our people is nearing the impossible > because of their IRA retirement losses.The situation is reaching a crisis > stage in morale. The negatives are so great that even our management > considers just throwing in the towel and letting the negatives win. > > The story goes that after Pearl Harbor, FDR called the nation's top > industrialists to D.C. People including Henry Ford, Kaiser, Sloan, Bechtol , > Brown and Root etc. FDR handed each a check with instructions to build > something .. from ships to tanks. As he passed the checks, one recipient > remarked.... " Mr. President, the amount is not filled out." FRD looked at > Henry Ford, winked, and grabbed the check back and dismissed the recipient > and remarked.. Henry, we can't win 'em all with a grin. The recipient asked > what was so funny and Henry Ford said.. "son, it we don't win this war, the > money's no good and if we do win, who cares how much it cost". > > With that said, what will happen to the dream called LENR ? Will it grow > feet? > > Richard
