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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
I think some people are missing an important point.
One of the Big Three automobile manufacturers is winding-down production of internal combustion automobiles.
Their assessment of market trends is guiding their departure from selling vehicles using internal combustion engines over the next few years.
This is important that Alberta take note of this decision. Transportation is currently the largest segment of petroleum use. If the transportation drops by half in the next 7yearsthere is going to be a large change in the north american demand for oil products.
We need to stop complaining about who suffered the bigger job cuts and get on the path to figuring out where we can advantage the next-best oil markets
Additional challenge... If this market change is happening on other continents... How are planning to compete against oil producers that are closer to the remaining region that will continue to rely on oil?
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Which one would that be? You do realize GM just pulled the plug on the Volt right? Some of you people really need to get a little more educated on what's really going on in the automotive world. Nobody is winding down on production of the internal combustion engine. The fact you are saying that Alberta needs to take notion that GM is shutting down it's sedan building facilities is one of the stupidest comments I've heard here in a while. As has been repeated several times in this thread the domestics are focusing on CUV/SUV's because that is the sales trend as sedan sales are slumping badly. Has nothing to do with the internal combustion engine. Sorry if this looks like an attack but I really believe people need to have a better understanding of what's really going on as your statement is very careless as people are not going to stop driving cars, transportation is not going to drop in half anytime soon, and few people are buying EV's and hybrids.