GM's Rick "rickety" Wagoner brings his horse-and-horsepuckey show to
San Francisco May 1, to spread more bittersweet lies and disinformation.

If it's a GM production, the "questions" will likely be handed in on
cards, and Wagoner's handlers will decide which he has to answer.

This was how Wagoner did it at the annual stuckholders' meeting in
L.A., which was supposed to have a "Q&A" session -- but they took up
almost all the meeting with ballyhooing their new big improved GMT900
Tahoe pickup trucks and other products, leaving room for only 5
questions -- none of the ones we handed in about GM's destructive
big-car slant, about reviving a plug-in, or about the EV1.

In short, GM controlled even the stuckholder meeting, refusing to
allow questions they didn't want to consider -- or hear aired, for
that matter. After all, the stuckholders and stakeholders would like
GM to put out a real EV, it's good business. Picketing a GMC dealer
in Orange County (and once in SFV), the sales staff came out to talk
with us, wishing that GM would revive the EV1 to bring in scarce
customers. On another picket of Saturn, the former EV1 person came
out to commiserate with us.

But GM continued lying at the Stuckholders meeting, even though we had
handouts and sat in the first row with a GM EV1 T-shirt. Security
threatened to throw us out if we showed our handouts to other
stuckholders (I own 3 shares of GM).

That's a GM "open meeting"...

They won't allow questions like, "why are you still saying the EV1 was
a failure" and

"The EV1 with NiMH had EPA-certified range of 140 miles, the EV1 with
PSB lead-acid had range of 100 miles. Why not start the VOLT with a
400-lb. lead pack, to go 10 or 20 miles, and then upgrade to Lithium
(32 miles for 8 kWh) or NiMH (50 miles for 12 kWh)?"

Recall, that's the way the EV1, RangerEV, HondaEV, and RAV4-EV were
all developed, using lead-acid first, to nail down the technology,
drivetrain and ergonomics, then upgrading to NiMH. The S-10 also...in
fact, all successful EVs started with developing them from a cheap
lead-acid battery start.

These questions expose the basic lies that Wagoner uses to shape
public opinion, the lies that EV1 drivers know to be false and
misleading -- such as the need for research into more expensive
Lithium batteries.

Or Lutz' claim that EV1 drivers sat on tenterhooks, afraid of running
out of juice, or Lutz' claim that NiMH is "too heavy" and toxic, and
the GM fairy tale about Lithium being cheaper than NiMH from a
life-cycle cost perspective.

GM in reality = "Globalwarming Motors".

--------------------PR ABOUT GM-----

CAN GM REALLY BE GREEN MOTORS?
THURSDAY MAY 1
A Climate One event
RICK WAGONER, Chairman and CEO, General Motors
With gas prices soaring General Motors is bringing 16 new hybrids
to market in the next few years, including a futuristic plug-in. Has
the company that killed the electric car turned the corner on climate
change? The country's largest automaker is still part of a suit
against California over its environmental laws, but it now recognizes
that climate change is a real problem to be solved. The answer,
Wagoner says, is new technologies and a diversity of fuel sources
including ethanol and one day even hydrogen. Is that enough? Ask the CEO.
Make reservations.
Location: Fairmont Hotel, Gold Room, 950 Mason St. (at California)
Time: 11:15 a.m. check-in, noon program
Cost: $15 members, $30 non-members
Organizer: Greg Dalton