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February 22, 2008
I would like to give GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz the benefit of doubt, but it’s hard to tally his apparent belief that global warming is a "total crock of s***" with that company’s efforts to create alternative fuel vehicles.
Lutz made the comment to reporters last month and yesterday said his beliefs are irrelevant to GM’s program to develop vehicles powered by ethanol-gas blends, and hybrid and fuel cell technology.
“It amazes me sometimes what kinds of things seem to “catch on” out there,” Lutz wrote on GM’s FastLane blog yesterday.
“An offhand comment I made recently about the concept of global warming seems to have a lot of people heated, and it’s spreading through the Internet like ragweed. But I think that the people making big deal out of it are missing the real point. My beliefs are mine and I have a right to them, just as you have a right to yours.”
Maybe. But it sure does not help GM’s reputation, especially after reporting whopping losses and losing its place as the biggest auto company to Toyota.
- Peter C. T. Elsworth
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