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A Bailout I Can Believe In--a Tesla in Every Garage...
At $100,000 apiece (roughly the current price), times 30,000,000 (roughly the number of cars currently owned), equals $3 trillion. That takes care of a nice bite of foreign oil dependency and air pollution. Create jobs building Tesla factories and related industries.
Recycle all the old cars, give the metal to the Big Three as their "bailout".
Tell the Big Three to restructure to build cars or rails for high-speed trains out of the corpses of their misguided policies.
I really don't see why Old Thinking should be rewarded, and New Thinking shouldn't.
Recycle all the old cars, give the metal to the Big Three as their "bailout".
Tell the Big Three to restructure to build cars or rails for high-speed trains out of the corpses of their misguided policies.
I really don't see why Old Thinking should be rewarded, and New Thinking shouldn't.
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I realize you're being a little tounge and cheek, but lets be part of the 'reality based community' just for a second:
Auto production involves the longest supply chains, the longest design and production planning process.
Americans have this notion that car companies can just jump trends and turn everything around in a few months, when actually it takes at least three years - absolute minimum - to bring a new model to market. This is not bubble gum - or even the vaunted I-phone.
Tesla is a boutique maker - they've made fewer than 100 cars.
November 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Besides the problem KingElvis noted, your numbers are off...
(source)One thing made it obvious right away: California has more than 30 million people and an average of approximately one car per person. :-)
November 25, 2008 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummmm,how about 300 million electric cars at $10,000 each?
I knew there had to be something wrong with those numbers somewhere, ct.
KingElvis, agree that the chain is long in auto manufacturing, and that there couldn't be a longer-reaching way to affect our overall economy than to have a successful, progressive auto industry. If there IS non-fossil-fuel auto technology available, shouldn't the government help take it out of the boutique stage and get it into mass production (and thus lower the price) asap? Imagine the nature of the long chain from that sort of car.
November 25, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink