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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Power plant capital costs. The market would focus, consolidate and find some very innovative ways to produce low-cost clean energy.

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Grant Thornton LLP Warns of Potential Collapse of Automotive Supply Chain

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This will not alleviate the entire liquidity problem, but it will buy some time for the suppliers to formulate the consolidation plans. This of course requires OEM buy-in and their assurance that the individual supplier is a critical, long-term player. The Role of the OEMs.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Berkshire Hathaway first tried to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. " One more thing reassured him.

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