The booming sound you may be hearing right now — especially if you live in San Francisco or Washington, D.C — could be resulting from liberal heads exploding as they read about what Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said during a conference this month. Electric vehicles will only ever make up 30 percent of the market or less, he argued, and politicians should get out of the way and let the markets decide which cars are preferable to consumers.
Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Al Gore have not commented.
Toyoda’s opinion doesn’t mean that he’s completely given up on cleaner energy, though; he believes hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell cars will play a role too — but gas-burning cars will still dominate.
With a billion people in the world living without electricity, limiting their choices and ability to travel by making expensive cars isn’t the answer, the grandson of the company’s founder…
