>>That costs the Oil industry and the auto industry money.
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>Right, and that silly concept rules all? ... What about those industries embracing the idea that they too can make profit by being the vanguard of change????
>A CEO's job is not only to maximize this quarter's profits, but also to ensure that they are profitable in the FUTURE. And look at how GM and Ford (and Chrysler) have been doing lately with their approach until now! And the oil companies remain blind to the prospect that their commodity is of fixed volume and has to run out sometime? All those CEO deserve to be fired for their total inability (unwillingness, actually) to think to the future and embrace it.

Après nous, le déluge?

What do they care? Their financial incentive never stretches further into the future than the next quarter, or maybe fiscal year. And whenever a CEO can come up with something that will be applauded at Wall(mart) Street, and that may probably ruin the whole business in 10 or 20 years, he's safe thinking that he'll retire by then, wrapped in his golden parachute.