Automotive Industry

What to do after oil? It's up to the auto industry.(Column)

Automotive News Europe, November, 2002 by Crain, Keith

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Byline: KEITH CRAIN

THE GLOBAL auto industry has a common challenge to determine how to make the world's finite oil resources last as long as possible. It also has a responsibility to phase in a substitute for petroleum.

One reason new-car sales are booming here in America is that not only is the love affair with the automobile alive and well, but it's become a love affair with trucks more than cars.

And therein lies the problem.

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Anyone with a grain of sense knows that at the present rate of consumption, we're going to run out of petroleum. I'm not going to argue about ...

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Automotive Industry

What to do after oil? It's up to the auto industry.(Column)

Automotive News Europe, November, 2002 by Crain, Keith

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