Requiem for An Auto Giant.

Bob Lutz, vice chairman of General Motors was said to have stated that global warming is ‘a crock of shit.’ Now that the company that helped to pollute the environment with the millions of vehicles his company has produced and sold through the years is breathing its last, ‘the crock of shit’ as the V.C flippantly termed it will be reduced considerably and the air is all the more purer as a result.
The era of gas guzzling, pollution-spewing internal combustion engine is slowly but surely coming to a close. While the Western manufacturers are still obsessed with the idea of ICE and keep on producing the evil-product, some far sighted entrepreneurs in Asian countries like China and India have slowly started to deviate from the well-trodden path. India’s electric vehicle Reva and China’s rather advanced BYD are forerunners of this coming revolution.
Talking about India, the Tatas are going to fill the highways with their cheap little trinket called the Nano. They will soon be visible on the highways around the world, belching carbonic gases like nobody’s business. Such ventures are bound to be short lived, for the days of petrol and diesel driven vehicles are numbered.
The writing on the wall is there for all to see. Auto makers will have to wake up from their rigid mindsets from petrol to ‘green’ cars very soon or they will have to give up the ghost like the ubiquitous GM.

Hurrah to BVD Co., China.

China is notorious for her carbon emissions. But the great country has done something to compensate for this sin. For it has developed an electric car that seemingly holds great promise. The automaker, BYD Co. Ltd has introduced a car named ‘e 6’. It was in show at the North American International Auto Show held in Detroit recently. It isn’t a small car like most electric cars for it can seat five persons comfortably. And its unique BYD Fe battery enables the car to travel 400km on a single charge.
China has no oil reserves to mention. So she can save hefty sums on oil imports if cars like the ‘e 6’ can take off successfully. On a happy note, it will help reduce the carbon emission to a considerable level.
But carbon spewing developed countries will not develop such cars in a hurry. The oil companies are in cahoots with the auto industry. They don’t want motor vehicles other than fossil fuel driven, gliding along the highways. They don’t care a hoot in saving the environment; they are interested only in the fat profits their evil industries bring them. The way they go on, they’d start shitting on their own dining tables and if the situation warrants it, their own dinner plates.
Hurrah to all those companies that develops the kind of autos that don’t vomit carbon gases. Let those who have that vision and the foresight to save our fragile environment.