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The Future of the Auto Industry with Toyota's James Lentz

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aaliyah Avatar
aaliyah
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Posted: 08.26.10, 04:48 AM
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indienews
Posts: 1
Posted: 05.08.10, 10:25 AM
Watching this clip now - after all the toyota problems makes me laugh. Then I realized that the Oil Company, the Car companies will do anything they can to keep things the way they are.

The recent Massive Oil leak in the Gulf should be it!

We must kill all wildlife, and ourselves to have Oil. What we need to do is make government policy to ban all car and truck commercials on tv.

The constant "need" for Oil that is a manufactured problem, is killing us. I can't eat anything from the waters.

We can't eat food from the Supermarkets because it is so filled with Oil our bodies cannot deal with it.

The young that have not experienced anything else but suburbs that make you need a car, and have still healthy bodies, will eventually become sick from some kind of digestive problem. We have the numbers now.

The lung damage because of the proximity to roads, the heart damage due to smog. We are making our beautiful planet a place that is becoming too difficult to live. Not just for us, but for all the wildlife that has a right in the ecological system to live.

We need those animals, bugs, and plant life more than we need the Oil.
But until the "change" weather hits us directly, we don't even think about it.

As New Orleans portrays, we don't get it even when we get hit again and again.

mgha
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rgray222
Posts: 4
Posted: 01.14.10, 06:25 AM
Nobody denies that we need to find alternative energy sources. We desperately need to find alternative energy sources and free ourselves from importing oil from the Middle East and South America. In the meantime we cannot let governments pass cap and trade bill that do nothing for the environment, it is simply a tax that politicans see as a source of revenue. You have to ask yourself why governments won't drill for oil, yes it will take years to bring that oil to the refineries but in the meantime it would hold oil prices in check. How much oil is still in the ground or in sand or shale. This is a topic that has an answer. Contrary to the beliefs of Toyota, there is absolutely plenty of oil for the next three or four generations. It simply takes courageous policans to let us drill for oil while we search for alternative oil sources.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...227927,00.html
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Zef Avatar
Zef
Posts: 1
Posted: 01.11.10, 11:49 PM
Alikar,

We didn't "peak" in the 90's... We are peaking now, if not by 2014. It does not matter how much they find... Outer space is -FULL- of gas's we could use... But the reason why we don't use that, is its the COST to produce it!

you owe it to yourself to understand... watch all 9 parts of "the oil crash": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9T5XPrDvg

The stuff they find today, wont be in the "system" for another 15 years. You have to build the pipelines, tankers, tanker trucks, drilling rigs... at the same time as TATA motors is building $2,000 gas tanks that have tires.

The oil we plan to use for the next 30 years is MILES deep into the ocean, then, MILES UNDER the ocean floor. It will be atleast $400 a brl to get the stuff they are finging today, out of the ocean floor.

The cheep and easy stuff, is GONE. If it wasn't gone, we wouldn't be using the oil sands that cost -AT LEAST- $90 a brl to produce ... BEFORE the water shortages start in 2012...

And dont forget that we also need to use oil, to make as much food in the next 50 years, as we did in the past 5,000 years to be able to feed 9 billion people. Cus Its Oil in the fertilizer, and oil in the tanks of the trucks/boats/jets that ship that food across the globe.

You can forget about it. Not gunna happen.
Our civilization, is over.
We are all Mayans now.
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Alikar Avatar
Alikar
Posts: 40
Posted: 01.10.10, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by mgilbo1
This guys full of it. Peak oil has already happened sometime in the late 90's.
Huh? You do know they keep discovering new large untapped sources of oil right?

Here let me show you on Google:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch...nav=od&btnG=Go
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ethorson
Posts: 15
Posted: 01.10.10, 07:14 PM
Cars are going to have to get better fast. Our dependence on foreign oil is devastating our economy and transferring our money to our enemies. Plug-in cars that get 150 mpg must happen soon or we will beggar ourselves. Toyota knows this and that's why they built the Prius and sold it at a loss for many years. I don't believe that people will have to give up a car that gets 200 mpg.
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upkerry11
Posts: 2
Posted: 01.09.10, 10:01 AM
I had a crappy car I bought for cheap. I rarely drive because, here in California, driving is a suicidal sport. We have the worst drivers in thee world in my comparative experience driving in Europe. I have never bought a new car and never will. When my old car died I just decided since I rarely drove I didn't need a new one. I have been using a bike mostly and occasionally mass transit. I have always felt better, physically and mentally , without a car and yes, I do have a lot of time to do other things like the first poster above stated. It's going to be VERY hard for people to finally give up their cars but they will - they have no choice.
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mgilbo1
Posts: 2
Posted: 01.08.10, 08:21 AM
This guys full of it. Peak oil has already happened sometime in the late 90's. To say peak will be 2020 is a lie and there is no doubt the car companies and oil companies don't want you to know the truth. There hasn't been a major find of oil in 40 years folks and the days of consuming 85 million barrels a day of oil are over. Mexico's oil is running out and what used to supply the US with 2 mil barrels of oil per day in the early 2000's is now only supplying us with 1 mil per day and declining at a rate of 10%+ per year. Britian will soon be a net importer of oil and their days are numbered as well.

Its over! The lifestyle we have all grown accustom to is about to change so you better get ready. The lasts one to believe when it comes to peak oil are the oil companies themselves and the car industry. They both have a greedy interest in using every last drop of oil on the planet and will do whatever it takes to make sure it happens. Wake up folks.
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Am-Expat
Posts: 14
Posted: 01.05.10, 07:26 PM
I was chuckling when the speaker laid out his worst nightmare of no cars. I grew up in California and had a life long love affair with cars, building them, racing them, repairing them, and fully depending on them.
I moved to another country in a large city that had cheap accessible public transportation. I had no car for the first time since age 16, I was sure I would starve, be home bound and isolated.
Quickly I found that there was life after cars. In by using fast subways with trains leaving every 2 minutes, buses, trams, trolleys and route taxis something was changing. I found that I had more time to socialize, a favorite activity I had little time for before, I saved a lot of money not having a car, I found a degree of freedom I never had before. Just the cost savings was $2000 a month in including the cost of operating a cars, depreciation, cost of storing the car(the portion of housing space devoted to storing a car) and best of all, saving several hours of valuable time each day by not working to pay for one, not sitting in traffic jams, not repairing them, caring for them etc. It was not an exaggeration that my quality of life improved dramatically with better health(more time for recreation, walking for joy and transportation), better and more relationships, less stress, more time for opera, ballet, dance clubs, museums, sports, and other such better uses of the reclaimed hours each day.
I still enjoy the act of driving if outside a city but I only do that twice a year when I return for a couple weeks to California.But I find there is little to do in California without using a car, people are not active in social activities as in Europe or where I live, people are very isolated and disconnected from their communities, if not in their cars, they are home in front of a computer or TV.
As a result of the better use of time, I have found that people who use that time, at all ages, results in smarter, happier, better informed, and less stressed populations. I am often shocked and dismayed by the poor physical health Americans are in compared to other countries that are not totally dependent on cars. Seeing a fat teenager or anyone under 45 is almost unknown here but its the norm in the US. But as the personal car ownership increased in my new adopted home city, I can see some of the same ills creeping in. Thicker waists even among teens, more sick days, less free time, fewer cultural experiences and less discretionary income. That is sad to see. But my own choice now is to not have a car(I still have an Italian exotic GT in storage in California but keep it as an object of art and not transportation now) because I have seen such a dramatic improvement in my quality of life, extra income, and improved number and quality of relationships.

The speaker is whistling passed the graveyard if he is making an assumption of future growth will include Japanese, US and American manufacturers. He obviously has not been to China lately. They are building more cars than the US now just for domestic consumption. They plan on dominating the world market within 15 years. They are selling all electric cars now, and have more engineers than the US, Japan and Europe combined.
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