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July 22, 2006

GM: Hybrids Are Concession to Moonbattery

Posted by Dave Blount at July 22, 2006 8:38 AM

General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has admitted that GM is building hybrids not because they are economically sane, but out of sheer moonbattery:

Hybrids are technologically of doubtful benefit, and expensive, but necessary from a political and public relations point of view. Toyota has said, economically, hybrids make no sense. The reduction in fuel [consumption] does not pay for the technological content and cost of the vehicle so therefore economically it remains fairly nonsensical, so that's the left-brain analytical argument.

The right brain is it's the popular thing to do, many people believe that if we all drove hybrids the world would suddenly get cooler again and then it's the patriotic thing to do because if you drive a hybrid you will no longer be funding the Arab terrorists, and so forth.

So, with all those beliefs out there, you have to do a hybrid for public policy reasons.

As for driving hybrids to pour less money into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, if we really wanted to stop paying our own executioners, we would stand up to the environmental lobby and lift restrictions on drilling for oil at home.

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