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I've been on this planet for 46 years now. Thirty of those years
have been in the automotive field. Now is our chance to change in
what we use to power our cars. The public is much more aware and
eager to move on to electric drive systems. 

Back in '95 we were young and naive and thought that "bigger" was
better. We've all grown a little and the reality of the
world's future oil needs can't be eclipsed by what we have in our
driveways. Please don't let this chance for change slip by
us. We all know that California sets the pace of the rest of
country. Blessing or curse? It doesn't matter! It's our
responsiblty none the less. I've worked for GM Dealers for the
last 15 years and I've seen the disinterest in the Manufacturers
and Dealers to embrace changes to their drive train systems in the
past. The market is changing, customers are coming in to our
Dearlerships and asking for better than what we've built for the
last one hundred years. Look at what's selling and what's not.
 How far away is a $6 gallon of gas going to be? What will we be
willing to do to keep that from happening? Reducing? Rationing?
War? Remember the early seventies and the lines to buy a few
gallons of gas on odd and even days? Should we start that line
again because we don't have the courage for change? Recycling that
aluminum can or newspaper isn't enough anymore. We had to be taught
to do those things and now is the time for the next step in our
education of Reducing, Recycling and Reusing. Don't be naive, or
worst yet, lazy and not hold ourselves up to the need of change.
We have the technology and urgency to be successful at creating
this change today. It's not worth the time debating if this was
possible in 1995. That was a long time ago and in many ways we've
created solutions to those
short comings that are always point to.

 I started out to say very few words and to feel a little better
that I did my part for our planet today. Now I'm sitting here with
tears of frustration and my head hurting from thinking how we took
ten steps backwards in the past and might add a few more steps in
the same direction today.

 There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have
grown hopeless about them. Are we hopeless people?