Jethro Tull leader urges US car giants to go green
Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson is worried about world pollution and climate change, and he thinks American automobile manufacturers can lead the way to a greener world. Anderson wrote on the official j-tull.com website, "The traditional Detroit auto industry, so long in the doldrums and lagging behind Asia, can rebuild, retool, and reinvent the personal transport of tomorrow if it chooses the right way now... All it takes is the realization that combating climate change is not some form of Federal Government-imposed industrial and economic punishment, but the chance to stimulate the national and world economies with new thought and direction."
He added, "At the Detroit Motor Show this month, a new prototype by General Motors, the Chevrolet Volt, was unveiled. Designed to produce 120 miles per hour, 150 staggering miles to the gallon, and 0-60 in eight seconds, this would provide sports car performance from an electric car... If this is to be believed, it seems to show that the car industry can change."
Anderson also wrote, "Alternative energy investment and the transport industries re-thinking their futures, both technologically and commercially -- even morally -- have to be high on the agenda for America as well as the rest of the world. Like a fine wine, complex and slow to start but with a great finish, the USA can really influence the world if it wants to. The chance is there now to impact internationally and in infinitely more productive ways than by some other results of U.S. and U.K. foreign policy over the last years."
As for the argument that Americans shouldn't undertake such changes unless the other major polluters do the same, he said, "We are all going to have bite bullets in the years to come. No point in blaming the Chinese and the Indians. We all have to swallow the nasty medicine stuff if we want to leave a tolerable planet for our great-grandchildren."
He added, "At the Detroit Motor Show this month, a new prototype by General Motors, the Chevrolet Volt, was unveiled. Designed to produce 120 miles per hour, 150 staggering miles to the gallon, and 0-60 in eight seconds, this would provide sports car performance from an electric car... If this is to be believed, it seems to show that the car industry can change."
Anderson also wrote, "Alternative energy investment and the transport industries re-thinking their futures, both technologically and commercially -- even morally -- have to be high on the agenda for America as well as the rest of the world. Like a fine wine, complex and slow to start but with a great finish, the USA can really influence the world if it wants to. The chance is there now to impact internationally and in infinitely more productive ways than by some other results of U.S. and U.K. foreign policy over the last years."
As for the argument that Americans shouldn't undertake such changes unless the other major polluters do the same, he said, "We are all going to have bite bullets in the years to come. No point in blaming the Chinese and the Indians. We all have to swallow the nasty medicine stuff if we want to leave a tolerable planet for our great-grandchildren."
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