In a brief post in support of the main WSJ story, "Ford Will Speed Green-Car Launches" (link), the writer gives the Ford plan in full (link), points us to the A WaPo piece on bail-out fatique, "Crunch Time for the Big 3" (link) and raises questions about the claims of the auto makers that they are going green, given their recent advertising trends, crediting an interesting lower-profile piece from yesterday, " Massive Truck Promotions in a Shrinking Carmaker Ad Climate." (link), which in itself is a reaction to a piece in Automotive news, "Marketing Budgets Collapse." (link). I like the way the writer ties everything together and points me to other worthwhile reading. For instance, he links to an earlier post of his on the ... More »

Not much depth, but good news analysis that raises an insightful question. Based mostly on a WSJ story and another blogger, so most of the legwork was already done. Links to sources. Car company interviews about their ads would have been a good addition. As it stands the title question remains unanswered.

This WSJ article teases with seven paragraphs of little info or insight, although links to more details are useful. The gist is that the Big 3 are talking green, but advertising the backlog of monster trucks that weigh them down. The questions of what we need and whether what they can produce will do right by us are untouched here. Could the Big 3 combine efforts to develop common battery and platforms production?

The article makes a lot of keen observations and raises some interesting questions. Links are provided. The article is fairly short, and misses a few obvious points pointed out in the WSJ comments. No mention is made of the major justification of the auto-bailout, the preservation of jobs that pay well in the United States for up to 7 million working people.

Not deep enough.

Little coverage here.....issue is glanced at with out historical memory, insight or evaluation. the headline could be for a different article.

Yes, in a instant karma sort of way.

I think the story is missing what is really going on. Congress roughing up Detroit is an act, a charade to make the handout more palatable to the public. The democrats have to protect the UAW and the blue state of Michigan. The American auto companies are doing great in foreign countries where they don't have the UAW. The Volt is also a charade, like the previous EV1 electric car. The proposed production levels are microscopic and good enough batteries don't exist to make the Volt practical.

This story just states the obvious without adding any value whatsoever.