General Motors Moves to Green

In Bryan Walsh’s (2007) article, “Green Motors,” he discusses a GM’s green car. Before, they thought green car was not necessary, but it is. Toyota, a Japanese car company, made cars with hybrid engines, and it’s become popular, because people want environmentalism. GM also has high technology to make a green car, and they started to make a green car. They will release four for a new hybrid model in every year until 2009.

However, I don’t think GM is Green Motors.

First of all, they already have the technology, but they didn’t try to make larger. They already made electronic cars in the early 1990’s, and they didn’t get a bad reaction from people. However, they discontinued electronic cars, because they had a relationship with gasoline companies. It was their business, and it could take profit to them. They didn’t think about the environment.

Secondly, green cars are people’s needs, it’s not GM’s wish. Nowadays, people think much of environment, and they care about it in all their lives. It can be applied to buying a car. People want to buy green cars, more effective and economic. However, they ignored the fact that people want green cars, and now, they are about to hear people’s needs, because they need customers.

Thirdly, they are just business companies, not an environment organization. The earth is sick because of many problems. One of them is car pollution; it’s a big problem. There are some rules about making cars for environment, and it requires some high technologies. It is difficult for many other companies to make cars with these rules. If GM really cared about the environment, they should share technology with others. But they don’t, because they are not an environment organization, they are just a business company.

In conclusion, they are not green motors even though they are inventing in some green cars. They just follow their profit. We should not expect them to do something green. We can get the better if we think much of green from ourselves. They will follow us.


Walsh, B. (2007, Oct. 11). Green Motors. Time. Retrieved March 24, 2008, from http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1669723_1669725_1670578,00.html