Saving Our Beloved Cars and the Automotive Industry

Once again the U.S. automotive industry is in dire straits. Did not learn of the 1973 energy crisis. Did not learn from the experience Chrysler. Not to learn from Toyota. It still depends on an old, worn concepts and the CEO's that are kept in their positions by nepotism and communities who do not understand the automotive industry.

In the joint efforts of the Big Three are asking the U.S. government for 25 billion U.S. dollars of loans. They argue that the government demands for increased fuel efficiency are too expensive to implement and require massive amounts of capital for retooling.

Let's assume for a moment that the argument has merit. But how can companies with manufacturing facilities around the world will not notice a steady increase in fuel prices, but do not see the warning signs displayed by governments around the world who want to limit greenhouse gas emissions and consumption of fossil fuels. This neglect is inexcusable.

The efforts of U.S. and European governments to curb fuel consumption are misdirected, counterproductive, and coercion. comprehensive analysis quickly reveals that we really need to limit and eventually stop the emission of greenhouse gases.

OPEC countries will inevitably continue to increase in oil prices. Electric cars, CNG powered cars and hydrogen powered cars do not stop emissions of carbon dioxide and sensible will do our OPEC countries regardless of the imports.

automotive companies are critically dependent on the fickle and changing preferences of national and international markets. Industrial enterprises that follow the political hype, shall be punished sooner or later. Governments are not capable of making cars for the market.

the world is relegated to the use of cars, trucks, trains, ships, aircraft and for the next century and will have to power most of them are liquid transportation fuels. May we be able to use less of them, we will be able to reduce energy consumption, we can use other forms of energy for some transportation, and we can produce petroleum substitutes from biomass. We even can produce biomass without competing with the critically important food crops.

In order to reduce fuel consumption speed, auto industry has been forced to deal with performance. American drivers can not avoid covering much greater distances than European or Japanese drivers. American drivers have less access to public transportation, have larger families, and drive on different road types. Motorcycle companies must listen to their customers. Toyota and Honda have been listening to most successfully.

U.S. and foreign car companies have developed a wide range of comfortable cars with a wide variety of utilitarian and luxury features. Sali cars and SUVs tend to attract large numbers of customers. All cars offer a wide selection of comfort and entertainment features. One of the main component of the car has received only peripheral attention to the much maligned internal combustion engine

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Many modern internal combustion engines are miracles of engineering. Materials, production processes, especially the peripheral components, progressed to an unprecedented level of performance and longevity. This is the last frontier, which has escaped the attention deserved. It is highly energy efficient internal combustion engines. It's kind of motor car engines, which will be further developed, it is the engine that lawmakers should be required. It is the engine that we use for at least another century.

long term auto industry must develop new, advanced, internal combustion engines!

The average energy efficiency of the Worlds inventory burning somewhere in the lower mid-twenties. Energy efficiency can not grow indefinitely. When approaching 50% efficiency mark, it will be difficult and very expensive to increase the efficiency of one percent. Advanced automotive engine operating in the mid-thirties. A large stationary engines are breaking 45% mark. Large motors on trains and ships are getting above 40%. Looking at the world's total inventory, we can still have a chance to almost double the energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption of present inventory in half.

We can not reach that goal is legislating fuel vehicles only. We can achieve optimal energy efficiency only reengineering the processes taking place within and around the area of internal combustion engines.

We know that higher compression ratio will increase energy efficiency, we know how to produce high-octane fuel, we know why diesel engines are more efficient, we know how to minimize the occurrence of pollutants. The automotive industry has developed a wide range of sophisticated electronic components for a single-cylinder fuel injection for precise motion control valve and ignition timing, and recovery of waste energy in the exhaust.

No company seems to have found the courage to jump on the competition and develop a successor more than two centuries old engine concepts, Otto and Diesel engines

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If the U.S. government decides to extend 25 billion U.S. dollars loan for the automotive industry, should be attached several conditions. loan should be secured and must take precedence over shareholder capital. Credit should stipulate that the salaries of top management are tied to wages and other top CEO's as if the American president. obscene bonuses from yesterday should be disbursed only after a wait of at least five years, which was previously agreed upon management objectives must be met or exceeded the

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We need to stop robbing money from the prevailing American companies for the production of by unscrupulous investors. These investors do not contribute anything of lasting value. They too were rewarded for ruining a healthy company. We can not continue to let a few select impoverish and destroy many of our country irreparably.