American won WW II in 3 years and 8 months. GM was part of that largest industrial gearing up in history that ended up as the key to winning the war. Their archives contain all of the information on how they did it.
Now we are faced with a different kind of war, something I will call the energy war. Gas, diesel and home heating cost are rocketing. According to the Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens, at todays oil cost we are sending $700 billion dollars each year to pay for our imported oil which is the greatest exporting of wealth in the history of mankind. Converting to alternative fuels is not only a matter for our national security, our economic future but if it keeps going like this will jepordize our way of life. Waiting 3 years for alternatives like the Volt and then getting limited production is not the right way to look at the problem and signals the doom for great countries like the United States and companies like GM. During WW II, if we had the same problem solving and sence of urgency that we have today we would all be speaking German and Japanese today. Great companies like GM need to think much bigger (more Volts faster, CNG cars, hybrid, etc.) and much faster or we will end up loosing our energy war.
Now we are faced with a different kind of war, something I will call the energy war. Gas, diesel and home heating cost are rocketing. According to the Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens, at todays oil cost we are sending $700 billion dollars each year to pay for our imported oil which is the greatest exporting of wealth in the history of mankind. Converting to alternative fuels is not only a matter for our national security, our economic future but if it keeps going like this will jepordize our way of life. Waiting 3 years for alternatives like the Volt and then getting limited production is not the right way to look at the problem and signals the doom for great countries like the United States and companies like GM. During WW II, if we had the same problem solving and sence of urgency that we have today we would all be speaking German and Japanese today. Great companies like GM need to think much bigger (more Volts faster, CNG cars, hybrid, etc.) and much faster or we will end up loosing our energy war.