Reply #30: So American car companies should fail and millions of people put out of work? [View All]

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No one, including the Japanese and Germans developed the electric car but I don't hear anyone attacking them for being too fucking late. I find that very interesting.

Also, did it ever occur to you that many homes didn't have electricity in the 1920's, especially rural homes? Lyndon Johnson had to force the utilities to bring electricity to many areas of the country in the mid to late '60's. Did those people not deserve cars in your mind? It was also more expensive than gas and much more dangerous before proper insulators like plastic were readily available. And then there's the fact that coal supplied the vast majority of electric at the time and would have created much more pollution than gas did.

I'm just not willing to wish failure on our auto companies because they didn't move toward a different fuel source 90 years ago. Especially when the decision would have been a worse one at the time.