all these urgent environmental disasters, like global warming,
and people are still not doing anything about it!
did you know that an average car in the U.S. driven 10,000 miles in one year releases 5.5 tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
the survival of our SPECIES is at stake......the WORLD is at stake.
you would think that those automakers would try to make their cars more Environment-friendly.
yay for hybrids!
To learn more about global warming why human life is almost on the brink, and take action, go to:
stopglobalwarming.org
2006-09-22 14:21:49 · 9 answers · asked by Jo 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Just look at the situation in the middle east and you will find the answer. Oil is the most crucial commodity in the world and unfortunatley it is one of the main sources of wars in the mid. east and why the Americas are in constant battle about this product. If we started eliminating fuel/oil based cars, it would set the world in chaos in terms of trade etc. We have put it up on such a high pedestal, it's almost impossible to simply switch to electric or other cleaner fuel sources. This boggles my mind when I think that each continent has its own sources of oil/gas and why we have to import/export it (especially over the sea which causes too many oil spills and loss of wildlife etc.) is something that was started a long time ago and the U.S. & Middle East probably will never change their ways since they have so much at stake, especially in what matters to them most...$$$$!
2006-09-22 14:32:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For several reasons. The foremost one is cash flow of course. When they do built fuel efficient vehicles, like the ones that run on electric with a small gasoline engine to keep the battery charged, everyone ooooohs and aaaahhhhhhhhhhs about it, but they don't sell.
Then of course there is the case that most thinking people who have researched out the claim realize that global warming doesn't exist.
With those two facts, the manufacturers continue to make vehicles that actually sell.
2006-09-22 14:27:45 · answer #2 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Automakers are businesses, and like any business, they exist to make money. That means, they will sell exactly what the people demand. Right now, a hybrid car costs more (on average) than a conventional car. And up to now, the American people haven't been willing to pay the extra money (at least, not as a majority). That's why the overwhelming majority of cars you see at dealers are conventional, with just a few hybrids.
As soon as the American people start demanding hybrids (i.e., start ordering them from dealers at a greater rate than conventional cars), I guarantee you the automakers will start making more of them.
But right now, they cost more than the average auto buyer wants to pay.
2006-09-22 14:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by The One True Chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by way of fact American automakers desperate to overlook approximately gasoline performance for years. The UAW is hurting issues, to make particular, suitable now, yet this concern began years in the past while Honda and Toyota invested important analyze into making gasoline helpful automobiles, on an identical time as american automakers made gasoline guzzling SUVs.
2016-10-01 06:36:10 · answer #4 · answered by kuhlmann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start up your own Auto Manufacturing company and then make the cars you believe the people should drive.
The other auto makers will continue to make the cars people want to buy.
Then we will be able to see who is correct.
In a capitalist economy the market will always be right. So, if you are correct the people will flock to buy the cars you decide they should drive.
2006-09-22 14:34:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Auto companies only care about the bottom line and that is selling cars or trucks and they survey the people on what they want and now everyone wants high horsepower vehicles with a lot of room in them and all the amenities.
2006-09-22 14:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by mister ss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Automakers make what people want to buy. If people don't what to shell out more money for a more enviromentally friendly car, or sacrifice power. then the automakers won't make them. But now that more people want them then they are starting to take off.
2006-09-22 14:25:19 · answer #7 · answered by Out a no where Dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well who controls the world and the $ in it? Oh yeah the same people who have stock in oil...as long as the epa is content why would they make more fuel efficient vehicles? They know we're the ones who pay for it.
2006-09-22 14:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by joshtnc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people still buy them, of course.
2006-09-23 01:26:05 · answer #9 · answered by Mad Scientist Matt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋