Some References for our "Saving Michigan Economy" Project
Your presentations led me to conclude that I'm asking too much of you, research-wise. It so happens that you must know the field, to a certain extent, to find the best references. So, for the next version of your presentation, you may wish to consult the some of following:
QI.
100
MPG Car Heralded by London Times in 2002 - Where is it now?
December 2 , 2004,
WantToKnow.info/London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,588-451038,00.html
- London Times
[This link appears in http://www.wanttoknow.info/050711carmileageaveragempg, along with this summary: The Toyota Eco Spirit was the talk of the fuel economy car industry in 2002. At over 100 MPG and with the lowest exhaust emissions and a very reasonable sticker price, the Eco Spirit's debut was widely anticipated (see London Times article). Now, over two years later, what happened to it? If you do an Internet search, you will find that Toyota decided not to be move forward with it. Why in these times of soaring oil prices would they not rush this car into mass production? (Moti: This article that the Volvo story repeated itself several times. The source is mainstream, reliable. So, we do have a pattern of suppression of innovation here.)]
Another
link from same source: "Ford's Model T, which went 25 miles on a gallon of gasoline, was more fuel
efficient than the current Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicle -- which manages
just 16 miles per gallon."
-- Detroit
News, 6/4/03
See also: Amory B. Lovins. 1. Reinventing the Wheels: The Automotive Efficiency Revolution
(http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0706/ijee/lovins.htm). 2. http://www.sciam.com/media/pdf/Lovinsforweb.pdf
3. http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Hawken-Hypercar.htm
Qs 3, 4: III. Health environmental effects Links: http://blumberg-lab.bio.uci.edu/past%20teaching/bio2B-sp2005/airpollution.ppt
http://uscnews.usc.edu/hscweekly/detail.php?recordnum=13364
http://www.uvm.edu/~empact/air/cars.php3
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/f00013.htm
http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=228
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/USAutoCulture&Env.htm
Metro Areas with the Highest Number of Days of UnhealthyTransportation-Related Public Health Costs from Air Pollution
Q6: GM Ascendancy Over Ford
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Casestudy/D_Casestudy3.htm
How GM took the World for a Ride: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/CarCult-Big3.htm
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/carpolut.htm
Q7. Why Volvo, Toyota, other car makers do not market available 100 mpg cars? The answer lies in politics. Oil and car companies would make less money with efficient cars, as we have seen. So, to maximize profits, they must kill car efficiency. How do they do this: 1. Control the schools--so we don't even think about stuff like that. See, for example, the book: Lies My Teachers Told Me. II. Control the media, so the average American doesn't realize a problem exists (global warming, acid rain, asthma, cancer), and, if s/he does, doesn't realize he could save money by buying more energy-efficient cars, see, e.g., Ben Bagdikian, Media Monopoly. 3. Controlling the entire political process, turning American congressmen--all 535 of them, our entire judiciary and executive branches, into pimps. See: 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGN7b37dn4c 2. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Nissani1123.htm 3. http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/PAGEPUB/BEST.HTM