What Paul Wilbur is staying up late to do

[painfully hopeful]

The San Diego Union-Tribune is running this Op Ed from Fearless Leader- just posted around midnight. I blasted him for it in the comments section- please feel free to join in if it aggravates you as much as it did me!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/26/addiction-to-oil-threatens-society/

Instead of trying to paint himself as some sort of visionary eco-savior (in all opposition to the facts), shouldn't he be spending his late nights figuring out how to get the actual thing into production?

[jdbgn]

Strikes me as he says delivery in 2011. Did I miss something?
I don't believe it but I will keep hanging on.

[organic]

He says "debuts" But I think I saw Aptera debut in 2007.......

[virtualeric]

Venting some frustration with PW via the online Thesaurus

Paul Wilbur
P.W.
Perfidious Wangler

Perfidious = see treachery (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/treachery) and subtract "willful" because I don't believe it's a willful act, just a Wilbur act.
Wangler (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wangler) Scroll down to "noun 1"

[JustWilliam]

This man is quite literally UNBELIEVABLE! "Debuts in 2011"? Coming from Paul Wilbur, what the hell does that even MEAN?

I am so sick of this buffoons disastrous management and verbal diarrhea. The only value I saw in his latest spin was the opportunity for me to directly challenge it.

What a charlatan.

[evmavin]

But we have all known this for some time. I bet they still have Laura tucked away in a closet where the public will hopefully forget about her past. A salary well spent I'm sure. I would bet that if Aptera were dropped in the silicon valley and handed over to some reasonably smart people with a start up passion that not only would cars be out but they would be fully funded. This is a classic case of a guy not understanding the culture of his business and only listening to the people he hired, his friends. Of course no one can challenge or threaten that model and it is a safe haven for under achievers like MM and his Amway marketing skills. These guys are milking it all the way and then when the money is gone they will have devised a laundry list of reasons it was not their fault.

[Rembrant]

He's just doing his job selling the company and it's products. Truth is flexeble to CEO's. It's just part of the game.
Silicon valley has no shortage of failed companies. Can you say dot com bubble? It's just that the successes are so huge that it gives the impression of great management. Huge margins make looking good easy.
This is not an endorsment of PBW and Co.

[Grendal]

The number of comments that are pulled right from oil company/big auto generated talking points is very interesting. So far we've had:

Those batteries are gonna blow up!

Those electric cars wouldn't compete if the government wasn't paying for them.

I can fill my gas tank in less than 5 minutes. Beat that.

You're just moving the emmissions from the tailpipe to the power plant.

Yeesh...

[Rembrant]

The number of comments that are pulled right from oil company/big auto generated talking points is very interesting. So far we've had:

Those batteries are gonna blow up!

Those electric cars wouldn't compete if the government wasn't paying for them.

I can fill my gas tank in less than 5 minutes. Beat that.

You're just moving the emmissions from the tailpipe to the power plant.

Yeesh...
Was this post meant for another thread? I don't see any of these talking points on this thread. Just wondering.

[Grendal]

Was this post meant for another thread? I don't see any of these talking points on this thread. Just wondering.

Sorry. Wasn't clear. Those points were brought up in the comments to PW's article, not on this thread.