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Wouldn't we be better off if we invested the $50 billion in a sector that could create new jobs? Even within the automotive industry there are innovative companies. Tesla Motors, for example, a tiny company in San Carlos, Calif, was founded by Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal. Tesla is building an all-electric roadster for the high-end market. It plans to expand into broader markets when the technology becomes cheaper.
Maybe we should look beyond the automotive sector to invest the $50 billion slated for GM.
The availability of cheap and abundant fuel sources cannot be taken for granted anymore. And even the most fuel-efficient car is not going to address traffic congestion issues. It is unrealistic to assume that we can solve this problem by building even more freeways without serious quality-of-life implications.
We may very well be seeing the beginning of the end of the age of the automobile.
Autos: Diarmuid O'Connell — vice president of business development at Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car startup — said consumer incentives on electric and plug-in hybrid cars are needed "to pull our products into the marketplace and to make the first and second generations of these new technologies cost-competitive with the incumbent technologies."
O'Connell said it also is important for the new administration to continue and expand the U.S. government's loan and loan-guarantee programs. Tesla is waiting on a $200 million loan from the Department of Energy to help it build its first factory in San Jose and move its headquarters here from San Carlos.
O'Connell, who worked for the Bush administration's State Department before joining Tesla, has heard that Obama plans to create a National Energy Security Council that is on par with the National Security Council. "We think this is a great signal that they intend to handle things from the center, and not simply through agencies," he said.
DONT BAIL OUT ANYONE DOIN G BAD BUSINESS.THATS JUST MORE OF THE SAME WITH THE SAME RESULTS PENDING.INSTEAD COME UP WITH BUSINESS PLANS/SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS.FOR INSTANCE GM COULD BUY OUT TESLA.GET LISCENSING TO BUILD THE LOTUS BODY HERE IN THE STATES.GET TESLA'S PROPOSED SEDAN LINE UP AND RUNNING AND THEY WOULD HAVE WHAT WE WANT AND NEED A PREMIER GREEN LINE.NOW FOR THIS TO WORK GM WOULD HAVE TO KEEP THE CEO AND ENGINEERING STAFF OF TESLA AND KEEP THEM FROM BEING INFLUENCED BY GM'S CORPORATE LINE(NO BAD HABITS OR TRAINS OF THOUGHT INJECTED).THIS PLAN WOULD SAVE GM AND IS WORKABLE DUE TO THE CREDIT CRUNCH AFFECTING TESLA'S ABILITY TO GET FINANCING FOR PRODUCTION FACILITIES TO MAKE MASS PRODUCTION POSSIBLE.THIS WOULD BE A NON ISSUE FOR GM.TESLA GETS FACILITIES AND AID IN MASS PROD GM GETS A PREMIER GREEN TECH LINE AND THE PEOPLE GET THE CARS THEY NEED AND WANT AT A RESONABLE COST.