The Ford Escape Hybrid that Ford CEO Alan Mullaly drove to DC is built in Kansas City, Missouri. Not India, China, or Mexico. If Congress uses our taxpayer money to bail out the Big 3, then every American citizen should get one free hybrid. Perks of "ownership" that the todays CEOs enjoy.
"GM sold the patent rights to the NiMH to Chevron, there was your proof." What are you talking about. GM buy a NiMH battery right now and so do the other car companies and not from Chevron, they do not have the patent. Get your facts straight. Posted by dhound3 at 01:42 PM : Dec 05, 2008
GM sold the key patents for its EV-1 electric car to Chevron. It sold the patents for USING the batteries in cars, not the batteries themselves (duh).
BTW, most of this technology was developed by Paul MacCready, who also built the Gossamer Condor man-powered airplane and the Solar Challenger solar-powered airplane. With technology like that, it''s going to be hard for GM to build a successfule electric or hybrid car without using these patents.
That is, very hard unless it wants to repeat about 10 years of R&D to develop a WHOLE NEW electric car that doesn''t use any of the patents that were sold to the oil companies.
Gee, what kind of royalties do you think Chevron would charge if GM wanted to use these patents...?
d7767w said: "GM sold the patent rights to the NiMH to Chevron, there was your proof." What are you talking about. GM buy a NiMH battery right now and so do the other car companies and not from Chevron, they do not have the patent. Get your facts straight.
It seems CBS lost some commercial spots and money from GM pulling out of advertising, so now they are out to get them. Toyota, Honda, Ford, Chrysler all lobby and pay money, so why is this different. Most of the time they are lobbying to keep Congress from putting tarrifs on raw material coming into the US so there cars produced in the US can be cheaper (like magnesium, silicon, and other materials). The US tend to protect little US based produces of this material for some reason which drives up cost and allows them to hold the car companies hostage.
I did not see Dingell or Levin''s political affiliation. If they we republican there would be a (R) next to their names and GOP mentioned throughout the story. Perhaps even a mention of Bush. So they must not be republicans... CBS your credibility is GONE, please stick to your hard hitting brand of journalism and run a story on Obama''s favorite recipes. Leave the serious stuff to others. National Enquire has more esteem!
I did not see Dingell or Levin''s political affiliation. If they we republican there would be a (R) next to their names and GOP mentioned throughout the story. Perhaps even a mention of Bush. So they must not be republicans... CBS your credibility is GONE, please stick to your hard hitting brand of journalism and run a story on Obama''s favorite recipes. Leave the serious stuff to others. National Enquire has more esteem!
So what is new about this. This is printed to kill the Domestic car industry. Putting a differ Standard on them than the Wall Street hand out recipients. Wall street feathered a few politians nests. Congress has enjoyed it with out complaint. Soon Pres. Obams wants to stop lobbying, but that won''t happen,its the nature of Washington. Power corrupts.
D3 would be in a much better shape today if they hadn''t lobbied so hard against improving gas efficiency while Pres. Clinton was in office. D3 has lobbied against any improvement in car safety, pollution and fuel efficiency for years. Only now they verbally have agreed to improving fuel efficiency, six months from now it can be a different story. Their CEOs agreed to a $1 annual pay. But their pay will again be in the millions in no time at all regardless of whether or not their companies are profitable.
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What are you talking about. GM buy a NiMH battery right now and so do the other car companies and not from Chevron, they do not have the patent. Get your facts straight.
Posted by dhound3 at 01:42 PM : Dec 05, 2008
GM sold the key patents for its EV-1 electric car to Chevron. It sold the patents for USING the batteries in cars, not the batteries themselves (duh).
BTW, most of this technology was developed by Paul MacCready, who also built the Gossamer Condor man-powered airplane and the Solar Challenger solar-powered airplane. With technology like that, it''s going to be hard for GM to build a successfule electric or hybrid car without using these patents.
That is, very hard unless it wants to repeat about 10 years of R&D to develop a WHOLE NEW electric car that doesn''t use any of the patents that were sold to the oil companies.
Gee, what kind of royalties do you think Chevron would charge if GM wanted to use these patents...?
GM FED US TO THE WOLVES. NOW THEY WANT A BAILOUT.
1) Finance companies (received bail-out)
2) Oil companies (Republicans love these guys)
3) Drug companies
Where is the CBS story on their lobbying?
"GM sold the patent rights to the NiMH to Chevron, there was your proof."
What are you talking about. GM buy a NiMH battery right now and so do the other car companies and not from Chevron, they do not have the patent. Get your facts straight.
CBS your credibility is GONE, please stick to your hard hitting brand of journalism and run a story on Obama''s favorite recipes. Leave the serious stuff to others. National Enquire has more esteem!
CBS your credibility is GONE, please stick to your hard hitting brand of journalism and run a story on Obama''s favorite recipes. Leave the serious stuff to others. National Enquire has more esteem!