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"GM in 2004—were hurting American automakers'ability to compete with European and Asian manufacturers. In Iowa many workers had watched their annual pay raises shrink or vanish altogether as employers cut their wage and salary budgets to pay for spiraling health insurance premiums. Even as they trimmed the size of annual raises, most companies also required their workers to pay a greater share of the health care bill in the form of higher monthly premiums and copays. Real incomes for many in the middle class were starting to decline." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Advanced engine technologies developed by Japanese automakers, Toyota and Honda, have produced hybrid vehicles that are far more fuel-efficient than those with traditional internal combustion engines. Toyota's Prius is so popular that there is a six-month waiting list. Another step toward the Right-Side Up world is the fact that enterprising inventors have taken these hybrids, reworked the design, and achieved 250 miles per gallon, proving that major fuel efficiency can be had if the desire is there." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"What makes the state attractive to the automakers? A number of things—research and development capacity, an extensive vendor base, the long history of the auto component sector in South India. Ford, Hyundai, Leyland, and TVS all have major presences in Tamil Nadu, and they mean to be there for the long haul.7 That means that not only is globalization in Tamil Nadu crossing over industries, from software to cars, it is also spreading out geographically. What growth has taken place in India so far has been concentrated in the larger cities, but there are over a billion people in India." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The big automakers are going to have to become almost regional in their thinking for a short period as they grow their markets for alternative fuels. That is because we have tons of competing flex-fuel highways operating right now, and that is exciting but fraught with peril. In California, Governor Schwarzenegger wants a hydrogen highway with hydrogen filling stations every twenty miles. This works for Ford's and GM's fuel cell technologies. The Midwest is home to ethanol (E85). Texas and the Southwest are home to biodiesel." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In the early 1990s, Germany decided to change the rules, requiring automakers to take ultimate responsibility for the cars they sell. Aside from getting on car companies' nerves, the dictate meant that engineers and designers had to figure out a way to make those dead cars valuable and easy 57 to take apart. As with any new development, the mandate initially cost companies time and gave them headaches —but then it started saving them money. It turns out that cars that are easier to disassemble are also easier to assemble." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In fact, we should demand that automakers produce some of their prototyped but never released high-mileage diesel-hybrid designs. Forget hypercars, even diesel versions of the typical gasoline-electric hybrids would be very valuable. A couple of decades ago, diesel meant sooty smoke belching from big-rig trucks, and foul smells from cars. More recently, modern diesel-engine design, coupled with wider availability of much cleaner types of diesel fuel, make diesel a more attractive option." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Researchers and automakers are looking to electrify the drivetrain, powering vehicles only with electricity and motors, rather than with petroleum fuel and combustion engines. Several years ago, most people would have said that hydrogen-powered cars were the only solution—and exciting new developments from manufacturers like Honda have restored faith not only in hydrogen cars but also in a future hydrogen economy. However, hydrogen development is more challenging than had originally been anticipated, and will clearly be slow to yield workable results." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Over time, thousands of financial intermediaries, including the overextended lending arms of automakers and other industrial concerns, will be forced to shut their doors, adding to spiraling unemployment and growing market turmoil. As insured losses multiply and eat away at whatever remains of banks' diminishing capital, payoffs will begin to slow down, and Washington will likely take at least some steps to water down or even abolish the FDIC guarantee. Reports and rumors of bad loans, shady deals, and imprudent investments will sap already waning confidence." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"They are in convenience stores, vending machines, corner markets, supermarkets, our homes, and even our cars. automakers have installed larger cup holders in newer models to accommodate the growing size of drinks.1 This expansion is clear in the way we describe food; servings often are labeled Big, Mega, and Super. This is not a ploy by food companies to make us think we get more—there really is more. We will show how portions have increased, and then address the issue of whether it matters." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"U.S. Congress and made to face angry politicians. Imagine the cigarette hearings of the 1990s, with an even angrier citizenry. We could see international lawsuits from communities most affected by global warming (and least to blame for it), backed by the threat of economic sanctions from bigger powers. Inuit groups have already filed suit [see Polar Regions, p. 527] against the United States for causing the melting of Arctic lands; even if that lawsuit is thrown out, it won't be the last one filed." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"All of a sudden, in a world of expensive gasoline, 55-mph speed limits, and truckers' rebellions, the drive-in utopia sponsored by the Big Three automakers and their vassals wasn't working so well. The automobile industry itself was extremely hard-hit, as it was tooled up only to produce big "gas guzzlers" and the public suddenly developed a passion for much smaller cars—for which Japan and Europe happened to be already prepared. It would be almost a decade before Detroit answered with small cars of its own, and by then it had lost both market share and quality control." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"The big three automakers obviously paid off the right people to make sure that there were no consequences to their illegal actions. Most recently, many of you have seen the movie The Insider or read the book about how for years the tobacco industry lied about their knowledge that the ingredients in cigarettes were highly addictive. Finally, an insider blew the whistle and told the truth." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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