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For me, the highlight of the weekend’s panel discussions at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo was two guys just sitting around and chatting. The reason the hour-long freeflowing discussion between the men was so good was that they – Dan Neil (left in the picture above) and Ken Bensinger, both writers at the Los Angeles Times – were smart, funny and unafraid. Basically, it’s what you want in a discussion of where things stand today in the automotive industry: two people calling it like they see it.
Introduced by LA City Councilmember Wendy Greuel, the panelists covered everything from the cars on the expo floor – Bensinger called them the Model Ts of the new generation – the just how great gas is – Neil made the very reasonable point that, from an energy perspective, “liquid petroleum kicks ass.” Details on what else made up the discussion are available after the jump.
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