Tag: Motor vehicles

  • The Future Looks Dim for Big Oil in the Motor Vehicle Industry

    The Future Looks Dim for Big Oil in the Motor Vehicle Industry

    Just as American consumers closed out the horse-and-buggy era at the start of the 1900s with the arrival of gas-run vehicles, carriage makers saw the handwriting on the wall and gradually moved capital, labor, and creative efforts elsewhere. Big Oil’s executives today certainly recognize that the gas-run vehicle era is fast ending once EV prices […]

  • Worries from a Major Auto Dealer About All Electric Cars

    Worries from a Major Auto Dealer About All Electric Cars

    John (Jack) Fitzgerald is no ordinary auto dealer. He communicates with consumer advocates. He started in the dealership business in 1956 and presently has 25 Fitzgerald Auto Mall dealerships in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida. He knows about automobiles. Mr. Fitzgerald called me in August with worries about electric vehicles. For decades he has seen how […]

  • Insurers Can Be Sentinels for Health and Safety

    For nearly thirty-five years, a small nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. has been having an outsized impact on highway and auto safety. It is Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and it is funded by a dozen or more property-casualty insurance companies; with a board composed of consumer leaders and insurance company representatives. Its origins […]

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