If GM or Ford came out with a supposedly “fuel efficient” car that got the low EPA mileage of these Beemers, people would be all over them about “greenwashing,” and “dinosaur-thinking,” and the like.

It’s an old story — Volkswagens and Japanese cars were very unsafe in the Seventies yet the Corvair and Pinto took the heat about unsafe cars, Mercedes and Audi had major reliability problems yet Detroit is the one associated with poor quality, and now BMW comes out with a car that gets mileage in the 20′s and GM is still associated with environmental stupidity. It’s amazing how some corporations can just dodge the heat all the time, and others seem to get blamed for any misstep.

The Europeans must have some pretty good savvy with our esteemed press.

My question to you is where do you think your hydrogen “fuel” is currently coming from Hint the Chevron’s love this because extraction of hydro pockets usually come from oil fields. Not saying this won’t change someday but until it is not associated with extraction of a non-renewable natural resource it can be linked with any current fuel or say electricity.

As for near future the EV does use electricity form burning fossil fuels but the great thing is that there will be many options to provide energy for your car independent of a energy grid. Long-term Hydrogen or water vapor but again look at what many are not saying w/c hopefully will be resolved in the future.

The whole electricity car idea is plain stupid as long as most of electricity comes from burning of fossil fuels. The difference is that each BMW car has very low emissions and does not have to send the energy along electricity power lines losing 30% or more of it.
It does not ask for much of bmwism to see that BMW cars give very good mileage: diesel 3-series uses less that 5 liters of fuel for 100 km! It is comparable with Toyota Prius without ugliness and sheer stupidity of Prius design, not minding the state subsidies for Prius in many European countries and the whole propaganda around it.

Hybrid cars are like fight for peace – people who propagate it are the biggest problem. It is time to stop this wave of hypocrisy.

Here’s the link:

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentID=6826

Out with the old…in with the new. So what, America loses 3 million jobs. The mortgage crisis caused the contruction industry to lose 3 million jobs to date. Toll Brothers isn’t out there with their hand in the till.

That’s what GM gets for being a big, gloating, uncontrollable, inconsolable, behemoth that everyone loves to hate.

Their holier than thou attitude has finally worn thin on the American people. We are tired of GM producing crap…we are tired of the bravado…Michael Mooore, who I detest, was actually right on this one.

Put GM in the hands of someone who cares about the consumer. Move it oput of the black hole that is Detroit and start all over again.