I was a little disappointed this morning to hear Buzz Hargrove (of the auto workers' union) say on the CBC that there isn't as much demand for hybrid cars as people make out. It seemed like an identical rhetorical tactic to the one that GM spokesmen were using in the movie (which I loved, btw).
Can it really be true that there isn't demand for hybrid cars out there? Especially in this age of soaring gas prices, I find that really, really hard to believe! Does anyone think hybrid cars suffer from being marketed still as a niche item rather than as a car for the average family? I still don't see a lot of ads out there either for hybrids or for Smarts.
Speaking of car ads, one of the best sequences of this movie is of the weird, creepy ad campaign that GM ran on the electric car, to make it seem totally off-putting! Quite entertaining!
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