Detroit Missing the Point in ‘New’ Vans

It was amusing to see the “new” vans for this season (View, Nov. 17). I don’t consider any vehicle with a polluting internal combustion engine “new.”

When the auto industry finally mass produces a car that won’t depend on foreign or Alaskan oil with its inevitable accidents and when it makes a car that won’t hurt the air we breathe, then I will see a “new” car. Until then, I’m going to keep fixing the van I have.

Can’t they figure out a way to make more jobs and build new factories and be a leader in a market that is begging to begin?

Come on, Detroit. Make us some cars that run on aluminum cans. I saw it on TV, and it works. Make us battery-operated cars that run on solar energy with lightweight batteries that can be taken out and replaced at battery stations instead of the gas stations we now have. Give us something really new, and there will be no glut of gas-guzzling pollution machines that you can’t sell.

MARY JACOBS

Westland Village