Congress is negotiating an energy bill that could raise the fuel economy standard to 35 miles per gallon, a move that would save America 1.2 million barrels of oil each day by 2020 -- more than we import from Saudi Arabia. But Toyota has joined forces with General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other automakers in an attempt to derail what would be the first improvement in fuel economy standards in nearly 20 years.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers -- the powerful lobbying group that includes Toyota -- is fighting against the strongest fuel economy standards under consideration by Congress, insisting that a 35 mpg average for cars and trucks is "unattainable." Instead, Toyota and other automakers support a much weaker industry-written bill that simply would not do enough to break America's addiction to oil.
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This is interesting because it shows us that the big corporations are interested in one thing: money, stacks and stacks of it! So they work out agreements with each other. You make cars that use my oil and I'll split the profits with you! The corporations and millionaires do not think about tomorrow, not even about their own grandchildren. Who will drive the cars when the oil is all gone? Who will spend the money when there is no air for people to breathe and they fall by the wayside, millions and millions, gasping. When humans are all gone, there will be no more things to purchase and no more money or humans to spend it.
This world will be another dead planet, its extension never thought about by, if you believe in fairy tales, the great magic fairy in the sky. Life and death, beginning and end. - 4 years ago
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