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Henry Ford II once explained why the US automakers prefer to make gas-guzzling cars, he simply stated that “minicars make miniprofits”.

And John Z. DeLorean, former GM executive, have said that: “When we should have been planning switches to smaller, more fuel-efficient, lighter cars in the late 1960s in response to a growing demand in the marketplace, GM management refused because ‘we make more money on big cars’ “.

Now back then people already knew how stupid and inefficient private motorism was. But they all ignored it because otherwise their profits wouldn’t be so high.

Bradford Snell once stated in a famous report to a US Senate committee that: “motor vehicle travel is possibly the most inefficient method of transportation devised by modern man.”

But nevertheless the central US national transportation policy during most of the twentieth century has been a corporate strategy geared towards the high profits that comes with private motorism. Wasteful federal funding for highways has been added with declining government subsidies for public transportation.

And its not just the US government that should be blamed here. GM and the other major auto companies in USA deliberately dismantled US earlier mass transportation system. GM and the others (also with the help from Standard Oil and Firestone Tire) systematically bought up many of US electric streetcar lines and converting them to busses. As a result the number of streetcar lines dropped from 40000 in 1936 to 5000 in 1955. At the same time GM used it monopolistic control over bus production and the production of locomotives to ensure the growing displacement of bus and rail traffic by private motorism. They essentially undercut themselves in intercity mass transit in order to make higher profits off increased private motorism.

And so USA today have to rely more than any other country in the world on private motorism and trucks for the ground transport of people and goods (with disastrous consequences for the environment). Private motorism today in US account for the insane 90% of all travels.

These ignorant car companies don’t deserve the people’s money. Let’s not waste our money on easing their pain. It will just prolong their pending death.

But sure, I agree with you that if we weren’t in this financial crisis, created by the capitalistic greed that exists in these failed auto companies, the choice here would be so much easier.

For anyone to sit there and hope the Big 3 come to an end, to be blunt, you are truly ignorant. I’m sorry, but you are. You clearly have no idea the number of jobs that are connected to the Big 3. I fully understand why you want them to tank, and a part of me does, too. But the bottom line, if we truly want change in this country, we will not see it if the Big 3 fold. The automobile isn’t going anywhere in this country. I completely agree and am for mass transportation everywhere. I am also against the disgusting urban sprawl that has made mass transit impractical. But the bottom line is if the Big 3 fold, a HUGE manufacturing sector of this country will implode. We need this to truly make a transition; we cannot do this if millions of people are jobless. We need to scale back automotive production and scale back our disgustingly lavish, impractical, and wasteful lives. But this needs to be a gradual process. As the economy dips down, people are being forced to scale things back. Hopefully we’ll all adjust, and then gradually we can shift to more responsible and sensible means and livelihoods. This will be greatly delayed if the Big 3 go under. At least that’s my opinion.

We need a focus on renewable, clean energy and transportation. I just don’t see how we can do this if we’re in a major recession, much more considerable than our current state, and that is what we’ll see if the Big 3 implode. I think we the right leadership we can make a move to more reasonable lifestyles without needless suffering and hard times.

I do understand, though, that another way of thinking is that these hard times are necessary to produce the results I’ve spoken of. And it might not necessarily be that bad to knock us all down a notch and put us back in touch with some harsh reality. We are so removed from the recession of the 1930’s and so spoiled we don’t know how good we have it.

But to sit there and root for this, I do not know why anyone would. I would root for change out of necessity; that’s not lasting change at all. We should be hoping for change from the desire to do so. That’s the only hope we have of saving ourselves from out current entanglements.

Then again, imagine where his company would be today if they’d stayed the course on electric cars in 1998 instead of smashing them and committing to a whole new line of SUVs…

In Sweden thousands of people have lost their former jobs in the car industry. Lars Ohly, party leader for the Left Party, says the car factories should be transformed to making wind power stations instead. That is something companies and governments around the world should really consider. The green sector will create millions of new jobs.

Claudia: I don’t know if you can call GM “well run” when their vice-chairman spreads global warming denialism while promoting their new eco-friendly car.