Unfortunately João Gurgel was born in the wrong country.
Far ahead of his time, he produced compact cars, fiberglass, which were 25 km / liter, electric vehicles, and that in 1980, cheap compared to foreigners, today somewhere around R $ 12,000.00. Was critical of the Pro Alcohol Program, since in his view the huge sugar cane-producing farms should produce food for the people and not fuel for cars, so it was fan of the electric car, though his biggest mistake was to believe in the authorities and the Brazilian government .
The people already have the bad habit of belittling the national product, so be entrepreneur in Brazil is extremely difficult because here in addition to the excessive bureaucracy, high taxes, corruption and lobby for large multinationals, especially in the automotive area where there is a real cartel (clique closed assembly plants that resemble their prices), so that taking as an example, Palio, Goal, Fiesta, Corsa, are all in the same price ranges, and this will of "popular" cars to more Dear.
For this lobby there is also a super rate of imported competitors, something 70%, which would be absurd if the car in Brazil was a reasonable price, but no. Here we buy the most expensive car in the world and is a true paradise for the major automakers because here they stipulate the prices they want, doing profiteering on the values of the cars.
Returning to Gurgel, their cars were still moderate success, but it was only the beginning and soon increased production of vehicles.
With success Gurgel wanted to raise higher goals, taking high loans it has signed a term of intent with the then governor Fleury SP and the Governor Ciro Gomes EC, imagining that governments would support the national product, entretando curiously denied the promised financial contribution to national development, at the same time comes the infamous Plan Collor, confiscation of savings, port strikes, everything seemed plot against Gurgel and his dream.
The government instead of favoring the national, reduces the IPI for cars with less than 1000 cc, are thus competing weight, the Fiat Uno Mille and Goal 1000.
Without government support, the Gurgel filed for bankruptcy in June 1993.
In a last attempt to save the plant in 1994, a request to the federal government for funding of $ 20 million to the company was made, but this was denied, incredibly former President Itamar Franco, preferred to support the return of the Beetle because I wanted a vehicle "popular" and "cheap" for the general population, rather than investing in cars Gurgel, giving the coup de grace entrepreneur, so the plant was declared bankrupt in 1994.
The boycott against Gurgel Engines, is very clear, he was a victim of the conspiracy and foreign cartel pressure here acting in collusion with certain cowed rulers and submissive that the 'zero hour', denied the promised financial support to the enterprise national, and also the failure of mainstream media and their opinion leaders, and the ingrained prejudice of our people with products that are not foreigners, thus ending a dream of a visionary, that due to the facts narrated, shot down by the harsh reality of our country, came to fall ill, suffering from Alzheimer's disease for eight years, died in 2009, at age 82, almost fell with your company.
In the end, we see today the results of a Machiavellian plan, agreed between the government of the day and the big businessmen of foreign auto industry to remedy any growth of the domestic car industry.
If we stop to think that not only car prices would be much lower in Brazil, but also we would be almost 20 years avoiding the burning of fossil fuels, we can conclude that the government has not only created a financial problem with the case, but also reaps Today the result of the lack of consideration to the environment.
Source: Society Eye of Horus
You reader, believes that if the government had invested in the domestic auto industry and vehicle plans powered by electricity rather than burning today, Brazil's reality would be different?
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