All right folks. I continue my English tortures at Mcgill university. This written course is the last one in the program, however, I cannot promise you that this will be enough for me and I won't take another optional one.
Anyway, it's time to check my Summary Writing Exercise. I am here asking you to read the following summary, then the origin and tell me if my summary is short and sweet. I appreciate also any grammar or style correction. Especially from Andy Clark!
Petrol-driven cars will continue to dominate on the market leastwise till 2020, predicted Bob Lutz, the vice-chairman for product design at General Motors. In his opinion, despite oil prices rising, 95% of buyers are not ready yet to reimburse car makers' investments in high-cost plug-in and hybrid engines manufacturing. Mr. Lutz firmly believes that increasing fuel tax will facilitate the development of green technologies. However, this idea is not yet supported by Congress majority, admits Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr. Lutz also highlights that now it is hard to produce more small vehicles instead of oil-voracious larger ones, because designing and launching a new model car takes as minimum 3 years.
(by Andrew Clark, guardian.co.uk , 11 January 2010)
2010-01-19
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