My father sent this to me with this note: Dear Frank, This is terrific. I think I may have told you that Sir John and I had adjacent lockers in The Driver's Club at Goodwood and had a number of conversations about the environment. Sir John said that he wondered if he even should, as an environmentalist, be racing. He taught at UCSB, physics, I believe, and I've seen his work featured in their publications.
Thanks, Dad!
In his final contribution to Telegraph Motoring, John Whitmore decries the arrogance of motor industry bosses
By John Whitmore
Telegraph.co.uk
Few people with even a passing interest in motoring will have missed the media speculation about whether the big three American motor manufacturers are going to be bailed out by the U.S. Government to the tune of another $25 billion. The previous $25 billion was a loan approved in September to be used to fund investment in developing more fuel-efficient vehicles. Republicans, who favour the economic need over the environmental one, want to divert the existing the existing loan, whereas the Democrats want the bail-out to be an additional $25 billion.
But why should they be bailed out at all? The have continued to make obsloete, consumptive vehicles long after their sell-by date, they failed to invest in ecological vehicles soon enough, and they failed to anticipate the market decline due to shor-sightedness or was it obstinacy? Why should the American taxpayer fund their follies?
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