http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232598,00.html

WASHINGTON — Edwin Black is on a mission. He wants to go head-to-head with the head of General Motors in a showdown at Starbucks.

The best-selling author has nothing against the coffee chain, but says he wants a public venue to confront the nation's largest car industry with his charges that GM has addicted the U.S. to the internal combustion engine — and hence oil — and is spelling doom for America.

"These are the cigarettes of individual movements. These are the cigarettes of technology. These are eight-cylinder cigarettes. They are killing us," Black said recently in a one-on-one interview.

"Stop allowing these health-harming, climate-killing, treasury-destroying, terrorism-enabling, petroleum guzzlers to be made," he beseeched. ................

Edited November 30, 200619 yr by andy82471

because toyota doesn't make 8 cylinder fuel sucking trucks.?

Tom Friedman of The New York Times called from last year. He wants his story back.

This guy is so one-sided, he's the real danger of America. He goes on to attack only American companies and lets all the other automakers, manufacturers, etc... off the hook.

Environmentalists are continually using the "blame america" card instead as their main arguments and all it is doing is alienating more and more people. Who wants to keep hearing all the things America does wrong every single day?

The US may be the world's biggest polluter but there are many other countries out there that are just as responsible for the environment as we are and they're not getting nearly enough criticism.

Oh ess-tee-eff-you is what I say to these types of arguments.

Good to see he's doing his part by quitting using aerosol coloring for his gray hair.

Who fronts these guys - the Taliban?

While jerks like this are busy dragging down and trashing American companies, the foreign competition are eating our lunch.

And I suppose that the oil will just stay in the ground if no one uses it.

Meanwhile, GM is putting heavy dollars into hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, E85 flex-fuel cars, and plug-in hybrids.

Yet it's not any other manufacturer's fault...

What... the... F***!?

This is also the guy who published "IBM and the Holocaust"

He's on a crusade against large companies.

What a f@#king loser-man.

Nice glaze over the old eyeballs. Smoke the peace pipe much?

Tom Friedman of The New York Times called from last year.  He wants his story back. 

This guy is so one-sided, he's the real danger of America.  He goes on to attack only American companies and lets all the other automakers, manufacturers, etc... off the hook. 

Environmentalists are continually using the "blame america" card instead as their main arguments and all it is doing is alienating more and more people.  Who wants to keep hearing all the things America does wrong every single day?

The US may be the world's biggest polluter but there are many other countries out there that are just as responsible for the environment as we are and they're not getting nearly enough criticism.

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exactly! and what about all the pollution the 3rd world factories put out!

yes, he is a loser man.

Edited November 30, 200619 yr by regfootball

Yeah they are addicted to it yet they are one of the leading researchers of hydrogen research. Chevy Sequel anyone? Or how about that Electric car from the 90's? But Toyota makes the Prius and it can do no wrong. What a f@#k$h!.

These are eight-cylinder cigarettes.

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and other companies don't make these or worse?... ford, DCX(viper!!!!), bently, the veyron, bmw, any "exotic"

sounds like he has a problem with #1 on top of it all. (unless GM sadly moves to 2nd for a short time)

Only an ignorant man would hold the positions he holds.

Wacko author compares GM to cigarettes

Wacko message board poster compares author to douchebag.

Picked me up a carton at the Indian reservation...

Goes down smooooth. Its Our Flavor Country.

Picked me up a carton at the Indian reservation...

Goes down smooooth. Its Our Flavor Country.

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You know some asshole that works for this author or Greenpeace is going to stumble upon this image, and soon, the pack of "GM cigarettes" is going to be on every protest board, and advertisement against General Motors...