Chrysler questions climate change

[arenean]

From the BBC:

Chrysler questions climate change

Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has attacked European attitudes to global warming, describing climate change as "way, way in the future, with a high degree of uncertainty".

He was particularly critical of the recent Stern Report on climate change, which was commissioned by the UK government and calls for urgent action to tackle the problem.

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If nothing else, Mr Jolissaint's remarks illustrate the yawning gap between mainstream opinion on climate change among the educated elites of Europe and America.

But they are also consistent with the cynical view held by some in the US environmental lobby that announcements by car companies about the future development of green vehicles are nothing more than window dressing.

[tavalon]

1. Liar, Liar

Pants on fire.

Edited to say : this is meant for Chrysler, not the OP. Fairly obvious but still.

[papau]

2. The GM VOLT could be in showrooms now - albeit with current lesser battery

specs and perhaps half the 40 mile fully charged range - that is to say -it could be sold as the first plug in electric car made by the US Auto companies.

But it is getting EV1 treatment - as a PR good vibes promise for 2011 - and not a serious push to market now or ever. Indeed recapture of the braking energy is not even a part of this "green car".

But I would buy it in a heartbeat if it were available now - just to have an American made plug in electric car.

It is hard to have a too cynical view of large American Corporations - in any area of the business world.

[sam sarrha]

3. besides that they still havent figured out people don want ther F'n cars, they want smaller efficien...

cars.. they should have figured that out 30 years ago

[Cobalt-60]

4. This one goes with the 7 Tobacco Dwarfs

Everyone remembers those assholes swearing under oath that nicotine was not addictive, right?
It's 40 degrees (F) over the correct temperature range in the American midwest. And the star bear at the Moscow zoo has skipped hibernating this year. But climate change is in the distant future.
Right.