[Vision2020] RE: Hybrid Sales UP!

[Donovan Arnold]

You cannot cross the Grand Canyon in tiny steps.

Still more to say.

Donovan J Arnold

PS yours was a Chinese Proverb, like "Don't remove a fly from your friend's 
forehead with a hatchet."

>From: Me <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] RE: Hybrid Sales UP!
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:56:30 GMT
>
>To quote a famous author (unknown to me):
>
>"The journey of a thousand miles begins with your first step."
>
>Enough said.
>
>Tom Hansen
>
> > Ted writes,
> >
> > "You need to get out more often."
> >
> > Agreed, but I disagree with the rest of your argument. The US is only 6% 
>of
> > the world population and has about 300,000,000 vehicles. Selling 200,000 
>a
> > year of your hybrids is not going to put a dent in the oil consumption, 
>nor
> > are the old gas hogs being destroyed, they are being shipped to 
>developing
> > nations, so now you have the gas hogs and the hybrid.
> >
> > You seem to not comprehend that it is not the US that is causing the
> > increase in oil prices. It is developing nations that are consuming and
> > creating more a problem for energy and world resources. Most the 
>developed
> > Western Nations have stopped increasing in population and are more 
>efficient
> > with technology. It is the third world industrial and agricultural based
> > nations that are creating the increase in demand on oil and other 
>natural
> > resources.
> >
> > If something is 10% of the problem and something else is 90% of the 
>problem,
> > shouldn't you concentrate on the 90%, where you have more room to make
> > changes and to and obtain your goal?
> >
> > Donovan J
>Arnold
>
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