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Originally Posted by LazyScot
Just because you failed once, doesn't mean you should give up. And anyway, even if your countrymen won't buy the 1000mpg cars, the 1W PCs, etc, there's a pretty good chance the rest of the world will. That should at least assist your balance of payments deficit.
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Yes... if we can convince our own carmakers to actually make sensible cars, and not continue to build SUVs (they
actually wonder why the SUVs don't sell when gas prices go up!).
An example: Mitsubishi is
selling the all-electric i MiEV in Japan, is about to introduce it to the European market under the Peugeot and Citroen marquees, and it will outrun and outlast a Chevy Volt hands-down for less money... and yet, American automakers don't have the sense to go to Mitsubishi and say, "Sell us a license... we want to start building that car here." They don't have the sense to just buy an i MiEV and reverse-engineer it.
Some old dogs just can't be taught new tricks, and when they start to suffer, sometimes they have to be put down.