Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Opinion

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Texaco owns Cobasys, the company that holds patents on NiMH batteries for 

cars. They have not been easy to deal with according to Toyota and others. 

Excerpt here.....

In her book, Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America, published 

in February 2007, Sherry Boschert argues that large-format NiMH batteries 

are commercially viable but that Cobasys refuses to sell or license them to 

small companies or individuals. Boschert argues that Cobasys accepts only 

very large orders for these batteries. When Boschert conducted her research, 

major auto makers showed little interest in large orders for large-format 

NiMH batteries. However, Toyota employees complained about the difficulty in 

getting smaller orders of large format NiMH batteries to service the 

existing 825 RAV-4EVs. Because no other companies were willing to make large 

orders, Cobasys was not manufacturing nor licensing any large format NiMH 

battery technology for automotive purposes. Boschert concludes that "it's 

possible that Cobasys (Chevron) is squelching all access to large NiMH 

batteries through its control of patent licenses in order to remove a 

competitor to gasoline. Or it's possible that Cobasys simply wants the 

market for itself and is waiting for a major automaker to start producing 

plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles."[13]

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>

To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] att.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Opinion - Rick's Failed Economy Comment

Let's start with <<its also true that the Energy company's have had undue
influence through their lobbying power to maintain the status quo and the
ability to control/limit the technology>>

You state "it's true", but I wonder... -- I'd like to know what you have 

to

back that up.  What technology has been limited

Also, you stated <<failed economy wasn't caused by the banks or junk
mortgages>> but it was caused <<by people buying a bunch of shit they
couldn't afford>>..  IMO, there's enough blame to go around - but at the
**top** was congress who pushed lenders into loaning money at times teling
the lenders *not* to request income information or to confirm employment.
Some people bought realestate as speculative investments.  One lady bought
3 - $200k condos in the hopes the prices would go up...

That's all I have time for now -

LarryT

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Mauricio Mesa" <mesa_mauricio [at] yahoo.com>

To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:31 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Opinion - Rick's Failed Economy Comment

+ Humans aren't addicted to oil.  They're addicted to ENERGY.

Re: Thats true, yet its also true that the Energy company's have had 

undue

influence through their lobbying power to maintain the status quo and the
ability to control/limit the technology that makes new forms of energy

available or more efficient.  What made the US the greatest superpower 

was

its innovation/industrial revolution what has been killing it has been 

the

limiting of the innovation by these monopolies in our Capital system that
have decided its more important to put money before country's well being.
Globalization, selecting to export American jobs to communist China over
investing in the creation of jobs through maintaining its leadership in

innovation.  Why, because big business controls government not the 

people.

+ The failed economy wasn't caused by the banks or junk mortgages.
 It was caused by people buying a bunch of shit they couldn't afford.

Re: While partly true in that people lied on their applications to get
these loans, on the other side the banks knew that they wern't good for
the money but because they wanted their comission they took it in.  Like
Enron, Madoff, Stanford Financial, etc. it was all caused to a great
degree by a lack of oversight and regulatory controls by the government
thanks to many years of lobbying in Washington DC.  If the government
would have not sold out in the first place, they would have been able to

put a stop to Wall Street's selling of ill-advised junk products before 

it

reached catastrophic global proportions.  So since the idiot massess and
the greedy financial institutions perversed Capitalism to such a great
extent we are now faced with Socialist mechanisms through bank and
industry bailouts to fix what Capitalism run a muck was able to do.

By the way, I worked in Investment Banking in Wall Street in the mid 

1990s

and have worked for many years in investigations, including financial
fraud investigations in the US and abroad.

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:12:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC Say goodbye to your SUV's : BO just
   madethem    extinct
To: Steve Cook <stevec [at] cheatcodes.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <.com>

  Well put.

+ Humans aren't addicted to oil.  They're addicted to ENERGY.

+ The failed economy wasn't caused by the banks or junk mortgages.
 It was caused by people buying a bunch of shit they couldn't afford.

These are Great Truths of the Universe.

rick

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Re: Opinion - Rick's Failed Economy Comment	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Dan Warlick (edwf430att.net)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 12:17:59 -0700 (PDT)