Day Eight – Friday, March 17 - Baltimore, Maryland to Philadelphia, PA
This was an amazing day.
We had our morning reception at Koons Chevrolet in White Marsh, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. There, we found out that nearly 250,000 current and retired GM workers live in the area. A reason for this is that Allison Transmission/GM Powertrain has a huge plant right behind the dealership.
After a couple of phone calls, we were asked to tour the plant, which is where transmissions for medium duty trucks are being built. This includes the transmission in our Duramax-powered, P-100 Chevy dulley. It had returned home.
This plant is amazingly clean and modern. Employees are enthusiastic and proud, and after the tour, we were happy to give some of them the run down on our P-100 and E85 Ethanol-powered GM vehicles.
Charlie Anderson captivated this audience, which comprised of some of the world’s greatest engineers. I could not have been more proud when seeing this wrench turner from the Ozarks, by way of Alaska, mesmerizing these mechanical geniuses. I wasn’t just proud of Charlie, I was also proud of GM.
This brings up a very good point: Imagine, GM (the world’s largest corporation) having the insight and flexibility to support this project and to arrange for us to meet with their dealers, plant managers and employees to talk about alternative fuels.
You have to hand it to them; they broke the stereotype of big companies by nurturing Charlie’s engineering brilliance with regard to plant fuels, and by supported my grass-roots campaign to get people thinking more about alternative fuels, including P-100 and ethanol. GM even went so far as to support this campaign by broadcasting our progress daily on their internal TV network. Who would have imagined that such a large company would encourage what used to be considered alternative thinking? The times they are a changing.
After our tour, we were interviewed by local TV station before heading to Philadelphia.
Charlie Anderson and Rebekah Schecter (the beautiful and incredibly talented driver of our E85 Ethanol Tahoe) showing their patriotism in Maryland.
Tom doing his TV thing in for his Adventure Highway TV series and for GM's "Drive Time" internal tv broadcasts.
We had our morning reception at Koons Chevrolet in White Marsh, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. There, we found out that nearly 250,000 current and retired GM workers live in the area. A reason for this is that Allison Transmission/GM Powertrain has a huge plant right behind the dealership.
After a couple of phone calls, we were asked to tour the plant, which is where transmissions for medium duty trucks are being built. This includes the transmission in our Duramax-powered, P-100 Chevy dulley. It had returned home.
This plant is amazingly clean and modern. Employees are enthusiastic and proud, and after the tour, we were happy to give some of them the run down on our P-100 and E85 Ethanol-powered GM vehicles.
Charlie Anderson captivated this audience, which comprised of some of the world’s greatest engineers. I could not have been more proud when seeing this wrench turner from the Ozarks, by way of Alaska, mesmerizing these mechanical geniuses. I wasn’t just proud of Charlie, I was also proud of GM.This brings up a very good point: Imagine, GM (the world’s largest corporation) having the insight and flexibility to support this project and to arrange for us to meet with their dealers, plant managers and employees to talk about alternative fuels.
You have to hand it to them; they broke the stereotype of big companies by nurturing Charlie’s engineering brilliance with regard to plant fuels, and by supported my grass-roots campaign to get people thinking more about alternative fuels, including P-100 and ethanol. GM even went so far as to support this campaign by broadcasting our progress daily on their internal TV network. Who would have imagined that such a large company would encourage what used to be considered alternative thinking? The times they are a changing.
After our tour, we were interviewed by local TV station before heading to Philadelphia.
Charlie Anderson and Rebekah Schecter (the beautiful and incredibly talented driver of our E85 Ethanol Tahoe) showing their patriotism in Maryland.
Tom doing his TV thing in for his Adventure Highway TV series and for GM's "Drive Time" internal tv broadcasts.
posted by Tom Holm at 3/30/2006 10:39:00 AM
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