The warning bells could hardly be louder: oil at $90 dollars a barrel on Friday and polar bears bobbing on too little ice.
If global warming and war in the Middle East were provoked by a century of fossil fuels and cars, just maybe changing cars can change the problem.
The race is on for cars that would turn their back on oil, and radically trim their impact on the earth. Detroit has not led — but it could. America has not been the winner, but it might.
This hour, On Point: for the planet, for the country, for a 21st century ride — the global race for the car of the future.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests:
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, co-author of “Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future.”
Joseph White, Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, in Japan for the Tokyo Car Show.
Peter Coy, economics editor at Business Week.
Tags: cars, environment, green technology
we need more railroads for an energy independent America. Building those lines is a good bottom-up way to boost the economy. And we need an electric car program.
Posted by Waxner, on December 11th, 2008 at 2:33 am EST