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Tell GM to Offer Real Hybrid Solutions Today
Target: G. Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO of the General Motors CorporationSponsored by: Union of Concerned Scientists
Hybrid technology has the potential to provide us with cleaner, more fuel-efficient options in every vehicle class, as exemplified by the Ford Escape Hybrid, Honda Civic Hybrid, and Toyota Prius.
On March 20, General Motors (GM) vice chairman Bob Lutz admitted at the New York Auto Show that not making a vehicle like the Prius was "a mistake."
Yet GM continues to make that same mistake. Its new "two mode" hybrid SUVs, the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon Hybrids, actually feature larger gasoline engines than most conventional versions of these models. The electric motor provides an additional power boost but only a modest gain in overall fuel economy.
Please write to chairman and chief executive officer, Richard Wagoner. Let him know that General Motors can only be a true market leader if his company uses hybrid technology to its fullest potential.
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We sent a letter to GM supporting hybrid technology!
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Lets all work to save this planet
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7:45 am PDT, Apr 25,
Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
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Bring back the electric car that you removed and trashed to keep your oil buddies happy.
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Using hybrid and electric technology to the best of GM's ability is not only environmentally sound, its also good business. In addition, with gas prices perpetually on the increase and the economy in a slow-down, more MPG is going to look increasingly attractive to your customers. It's certainly the kind of car *I'd* like to buy from youe company.
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Shameful that American manufacturers are supporting bigger over fuel economy. In this age of pollution and global warming and serious threats to our way of life, it is irresponsible to support larger inefficient vehicles. Hybrid technology, and smaller, fuel efficient vehicles should be every manufacturers number one priority.
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I am trying to buy American brand products and the auto industry should have been a leader in this category in the world market.
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As a Prius owner, I would have considered a GM product if one had been available, and will in the future if GM has something of quality to offer.
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You have had twenty plus years to make a more efficient and safer vehicles,yet you resist.Can you tell me Just what the Hell you were Thinking?
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1. We continue to line the pockets of our enemies with OUR money. Its time we are patriotic about this and not greedy. 2. The future of our planet and what our children and grandchildren will be left to deal with.
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5:49 am PDT, Apr 25,
Phil Ware, Ohio
There are reasons that we haven't purchased a GM vehicle in almost 15 years and that is that the dedication to preserving our environment and improving the mileage in vehicles has not been up to our standards. At least three of my friends, 2-car families, have done the same. Of the vehicles in our respective families, there are 2 Camrys, 2 Civic hybrids and 2 Priuses (or however you pluralize Prius). The bottom line is this -- if GM wants to capture the "green" market, then there needs to be REAL innovation and leadership and not a half-hearted attempt to appease the lax regulation requirements for so-called hybrid vehicles. I can tell you this: with the ridiculous gas prices that we're going to be facing, I guarantee that our next car purchase will be of a car with no fewer than 50 miles per gallon. If that's not a US-built, specifically GM-built, car, then so be it. It would be nice to support US businesses and the institutions such as GM that have been innovative leaders in the car market for generations, but if there's not a viable alternative to the Honda Civic hybrids and the Prius, then, that's where we will spend our money. |
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We need alternatives and solutions to this on-going situation. Give it to your best and brightest and make it a viable challange. Thank You!
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Its time you stepped up and started to invest in engines that get more than 50 mpg, are environmentally friendly and that the average american can afford. The technology is there, you just prefer to greedy like the Big Oil companies. Severe the tie to Big Oil and Do the RIGHT THING.
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All of us who drive and own vehicles have to think of the environment as well as the depletion of these oil fields.
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You need to be talking with Denny Klein! Make something that will revolutionize your industry ..we don't need huge vehicles on the roads any more. Most families are smaller, and many people have to commute long distances, so go for efficiency. Why let the oil companies make the huge profits! Give this country the sort of economic boost that the auto industry used to be known for!!!
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