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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (435968)	11/20/2008 2:04:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575421

Ted, > I got news for you......had GM had electric cars and hybrids, it wouldn't be in the mess it is. Bulls--t. You're ignoring many, many other factors that led to the Big Three not being able to keep up in the auto industry. Even if GM got to electric vehicles and hybrids before Honda and Toyota did, the implementations of them would have been so piss-poor and so costly that they wouldn't have made any profit. I guess your memory is short. The first year Prius came out there was a shortage. They could not keep them on the lot. Dealers were selling them at scalper's prices.......so much so Toyota raised their prices mid year. The same thing happened again this year......you couldn't find a Prius. And you're telling me that GM would have been stupid to be first. I thought GOPers were good at business. ;-) The Toyota Prius succeeded not because it was the first hybrid (Honda Insight was on the road long before the Prius), but because it was the best implementation of a hybrid. The free market determined the winner in this case, and there's nothing California or the federal government could have done to force GM toward better competitiveness. Well, you're about to see the gov't tell GM how to run its business. We'll see how it works out in a few years. All you have to contribute is second-guessing nonsense. Dude, I have been complaining about GM's lack of business prowess for years. It didn't take a genius to see the slippery slope GM was heading down.