they want to drive a green porsche, a green mercedes, bmw, a green audi and green volkswagen. in asia, in the middle east, the people want to have quality cars and not plastic cars with a green machine. >>reporter: bmws new baby the minie is currently being fieldtrialed in the uk, germany and the united states. the allelectric vehicle has the backing of the german government as well as leading energy suppliers. the vehicles are leased to the drivers and, at the end of the year, bmw will take them back, dismantle them to learn how they handled in the real world. the big german carmakers are also working on hybrid vehicles which are much more popular in the united states. >>polleit: i think that people have understood the selling argument of having cars which are environmentally friendly, so sooner or later, the market will bring about these reforms and again, great progress has been made and i think there will be further progress down the road. >>pieper: theyve been forced to believe in it...theres no...theres not the motivation from these companies...theres no real belief in t

we will speak to representatives of florida and bmw. -- ford and bmw. mike from pennsylvania. no guest right now, but do you have a comment? caller: yes, i was a longtime fan of the pontiac division. i see the discontinued and that -- they discontinued that. that upsets me a little bit. how come they cannot focus more on environmentally-friendly vehicles? host: abilene, texas. lou on the republican line. caller: him they were talking about the gas mileage of these new cars. i have been looking at 2009, in 2010's, and i have always been a chevy man. i have a couple of vehicles that 23 miles per gallon in town, even more on the highway. i had a chevrolet pickup that got 25, 26, 27 with a v-6 engine. now i have a new one that gets 23. if they could make them 20 years ago, in the case of the the buicks -- my old one is a 1992 -- nobody can answer that. these smaller cars, they say that they are getting about 30, but look at the cars. host: thank you. next phone call from sophie. one more time, are you there? let's try, austin, texas. are you there? caller: yes, hello. i would like

what is bmw doing?uest: we have 450 mini electric vehicles in service in the u.s., more than any other company. we are doing this as an experiment. we want to find out what is the normal driving characterics of the consumer. ummer , a purely electric vehicle, designed with the consumer's have it my. -- habits in mind. you will see the next stage in development where we will launch in 2011, an extension of that, and lunch or a bmw1 series which will have space in the trunk which the mini doesn't. in 2015, we hope to be in a position to launch an electric vehicle that we call the mega vehicle in the u.s. spurted host: you mentioned the general economic conditions but be more specific about the war what the government can do to help the industry move forward? guest: the government has done a lot over last 12 years to put stimulus package to the economy. the economy is lacking cooperation. housing is the biggest issue. housing and unemployment, if that is tackled, many consumers will come back into the mark

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it is evident in the expansion of bmw or aviation.d like to land, but we have made changes. for these efforts, i thank you. it too many boats were never recorded in these chambers and there can be no accountability without transparency. niki hallie and nathan valentine in the house and others in the senate led efforts to change this from the idea that if something was important to be voted about to be voted on, it was important enough to be recorded. would you give a round of applause to them for spearheading that effort? c'mon, stand up. [applause] we now have online transparency to allow a taxpayer to see more directly how their money is being spent in state government. would you give the comptroller general round of applause? he may not be here. he is watching a tv. i will give him a round of applause on that one. [applause] we ended the competitive grants program. i will leave that one alone. there was a lot of fussing and fighting and a court decision to boot, but there were meaningful steps in opening up our political process an

it is evident in expansion of bmw or oscar, it is evident in the efforts of on some heroes working to grow and sustain small businesses like southern aluminum and clinton or roofing in some central or that matter donner and estherville. it's evident in a lot of different fronts. we talk about change in the way that colombia works and once again we have this land where we would like to end that we have made real changes and efforts year i thank you. for too long to many votes were not recorded in the chambers and there can be no accountability with out transparency. get niki hanly and najaf and valentine in the house and harvey in the senate led efforts to change this on the simple belief is an idea was important enough to be voted on by the general assembly of south carolina, it was an idea important enough to be recorded and i thank all of you for when you did to change this and if you wouldn't mind what you get a round of applause to niki and nathan and harvey for spearheading the effort? come on, stand up. [applause] we now have online transparency to allow taxpayers to see more di

it is evident in expansion of bmw or oscar, it is evident in the efforts of on some heroes working to grow and sustain small businesses like southern aluminum and clinton or roofing in some central or that matter donner and estherville. it's evident in a lot of different fronts. we talk about change in the way that colombia works and once again we have this land where we would like to end that we have made real changes and efforts year i thank you. for too long to many votes were not recorded in the chambers and there can be no accountability with out transparency. get niki hanly and najaf and valentine in the house and harvey in the senate led efforts to change this on the simple belief is an idea was important enough to be voted on by the general assembly of south carolina, it was an idea important enough to be recorded and i thank all of you for when you did to change this and if you wouldn't mind what you get a round of applause to niki and nathan and harvey for spearheading the effort? come on, stand up. [applause] we now have online transparency to allow taxpayers to see more di