DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a “total crock of s—,” saying his views had no bearing on GM’s commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.
Lutz, GM’s outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.
In a posting on his GM blog on Thursday, Lutz said those “spewing virtual vitriol” at him for minimizing the threat of climate change were “missing the big picture.”
“What they should be doing in earnest is forming opinions, not about me but about GM and what this company is doing that is … hugely beneficial to the causes they so enthusiastically claim to support,” he said in a posting titled, “Talk About a Crock.”
From Lutz’s Blog
By Bob Lutz
GM Vice ChairmanIt amazes me sometimes what kinds of things seem to “catch on” out there.
An offhand comment I made recently about the concept of global warming seems to have a lot of people heated, and it’s spreading through the Internet like ragweed. But I think that the people making a big deal out of it are missing the real point. My beliefs are mine and I have a right to them, just as you have a right to yours. But among my strongest beliefs is that my job is to do what makes the most business sense for GM.
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Make ‘ya wonder WHY GM “recalled” all those EV-1 ELECTRIC cars a few years back, and promptly DESTROYED nearly ALL of them…for no good reason.
(maybe they worked TOO well?)
Yeah, real concern there.
B.G.
BG, The problem was actually three-fold. First, nobody wanted them and they didn’t sell (with the exception of a hollywood hippy or two). Then, there was no infrastructure available to recharge them short of spending GAZILLIONS OF DOLLARS to create an infrastructure, and finally, creating a parts and service network would have cost gazillions as well, for a product that no one was buying. They had to be “crushed” for the same reason we used to throw brand new appliances in the crusher at Sears in Ft Wayne, liability directed at the manufacturer, both product and physical…
It seems a waste, but it was cheaper for GM (and it’s shareholders) to just make them go away.