Bob Lutz, GM Chairman: ‘Global Warming is a crock’

Well here is quite an intelligent statement made by one of the most powerful men in the automobile industry. According to a DMagazine article, Lutz sat down for a closed-door session with several journalists. During the time his topics ranged from blasting Toyota’s Prius, to stomping on the global warming debate.

“It makes no economic sense”, he said, speaking of the hybrids coming from Toyota, specifically the Prius. He says that the price will never come down making it more available. Well Mr. Lutz, I don’t believe the Prius was meant to be as much of an economic success as it was an environmental success. Its hard to argue about a hybrid platform that has been tested and lasted as long as the Prius. We all knew going into the Prius that it wasnt the cheapest car on the block, but it was more about the doors it opened for technology and the environment.

But with that said, I digress to Bob’s next memorable quote, “Global warming is a total crock of shit”, then adding,”I’m a skeptic, not a denier. Having said that, my opinion doesn’t matter. (With the battery-driven Volt), “I’m motivated more by the desire to replace imported oil than by the CO2 (argument).” Ah yes, a very informed and well thought out quote from a powerful Detroit iron man. I think that global warming is an issue, how extensive it is I’m not sure. I do believe however that it is something that needs to be studied and dealt with. The two largest contributors of green house gases are energy production and automobiles. There is no escaping that fact Mr. Lutz. True GM is releasing the Volt soon, but I see more sub 30 mpg cars from GM than almost anyone. So why don’t you get out of bed with the oil families and produce something real and world changing. We all know you have the money, just lose $1 or 2 billion into research of a new propulsion system, you lost $38.7 billion building and selling the crap you do now, so why not? Ass….