{"id":717,"date":"2008-02-13T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/02\/13\/lutz-said-globa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:16:21","slug":"lutz-said-globa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/02\/13\/lutz-said-globa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutz said global warming is a  \u201ctotal crock of shit.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/boblutz15001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boblutz1500\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/boblutz1500.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"296\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><br \/> The straight talker and car czar Bob Lutz said a lot of interesting comments during a closed-door session with some journalists: global warming is a  \u201ctotal crock of shit,\u201d hybrid and diesel cars \u201cmake no economic sense.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Our good old Bob Lutz is never short of a joke. This time he said that he was rather skeptic about global warming and didn\u2019t want the Volt to be developed to fight global warming but to reduce the US dependance on foreign oil.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Hybrid cars like those made by Toyota \u201cmake no economic sense,\u201d because their price will never come down and that diesel cars are also uneconomic. He justified his view about diesel by explaining that  diesel cars make sense when diesel fuel is half the cost of regular gasoline. When it\u2019s not the case, diesel has little market penetration. Surprisingly, in the UK, diesel and gasoline cost the same and still diesel penetration reach 40% in January. It might be interesting for Bob to travel abroad sometimes and not only in a private jet.<\/p>\n<p>He also compared the mission of a car maker to the movie business. \u201cyou\u2019ve got to look at the business artistically, too. Part of our business is creating blockbusters\u201d, he said. Unfortunately for GM, Bob doesn\u2019t have a good flair for blockbusters!<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The straight talker and car czar Bob Lutz said a lot of interesting comments during a closed-door session with some journalists: global warming is a \u201ctotal crock of shit,\u201d hybrid and diesel cars \u201cmake no economic sense.\u201d Our good old Bob Lutz is never short of a joke. This time he said that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lutz said global warming is a \u201ctotal crock of shit.\u201d - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/02\/13\/lutz-said-globa\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lutz said global warming is a \u201ctotal crock of shit.\u201d - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The straight talker and car czar Bob Lutz said a lot of interesting comments during a closed-door session with some journalists: global warming is a \u201ctotal crock of shit,\u201d hybrid and diesel cars \u201cmake no economic sense.\u201d Our good old Bob Lutz is never short of a joke. 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