The Green Files > Friedman on Toyota & 500 Miles Per Gallon
[Our View From Madison: www.Zmetro.com] I generally like Thomas Friedman's writing. However, he fails to mention Toyota's large gas guzzling SUV business while praising their "green" hybrid cars.
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[Vast Wasteland] From the Department of Motor City While overstati...: Having Toyota take over General Motors - which based its business strategy on building gas-guzzling cars, including the idiot Hummer, scoffing at hybrid technology and fighting congressional efforts to impose higher mileage standards on U.S. automakers - would not only be in America's economic interest, it would also be in America's geopolitical interest.
[Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter] The Growing Epidemic in Europe: Link Toyota and the Schizo-political I don't agree frequently with Tom Friedman these days, but I found myself nodding my head affirmatively at his column this morning praising Toyota at the expense of those neo-Luddites at General Motors. Having Toyota take over General Motors - which based
[Annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com] blogrunner: As Toyota Goes ...: Geo-greens seek to combine into a single political movement environmentalists who want to reduce fossil fuels that cause climate change, evangelicals who want to protect God's green earth and all his creations, and geo-strategists who want to reduce our dependence on crude oil because it fuels some of the worst regimes in the world.
[Climateark.org] Climate Change Blog: It's not that I want any autoworker to lose his or her job, but I think the only hope for GM's workers, and maybe even our country, is with Toyota. Having Toyota take over General Motors - which based its business strategy on building gas-guzzling cars, including the idiot Hummer, scoffing at hybrid technology and fighting congressional efforts to impose higher mileage standards on U.S. automakers - would not only be in America's economic interest, it would also be in America's geopolitical interest.
[Rogerlsimon.com] Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter: It's symptomatic of the failure of strategic vision from which our chatterers and leaders currently suffer, that so many words and so much energy are being wasted on the immense charade that goes under the name of Iranian "elections." Any normal person familiar with the Islamic republic knows that these are not elections at all, and for extras have nothing to do with the future of the Iranian nation. They are a mise en scene, an entertainment, a comic opera staged for our benefit.
[Info.detnews.com] Politics Weblog - The Detroit News Online - 06/17/05: As long as we're talking about Senator Dick Durbin, Talk Left has an excellent roundup of links that cover this "tempest in a teapot" created by the Bush echo chamber in order to deflect attention from the primary point. The interrogation techniques used, under executive order, by our troops are illegal - making our military criminally liable.
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