Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Today I read an article in the wall street journal about bailing out the electric car companies instead of the three American car manufactures this is a great idea that I’m all for I believe that if we are going to put money into the automotive department then it should be in alternative forms of transportation. As stated in class why should we bail a business that isn’t successful? I guess some believe that it is because we need to keep the American economy going. Well rather than adding fuel to the fire, and giving away more money that we don’t have, why can’t we take the fifteen billion dollars to start up a more efficient American car company? Why not model our cars like the pries and actually work on getting a stable alternative form of transportation up and running personally I like electric cars because they seem to cut down on air pollution. But the debate seems to be like the old chicken and the egg problem. People are unwilling to buy an electric car because there aren’t any electric charging stations and there aren’t any electric charging stations because people aren’t buying the electric cars. Why can’t we find a way to fix this problem?

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