Get Trucking: What’s Detroit’s Real Plan?

General Motors has offered a similar message [to Ford's], staking its green reputation on the Chevy Volt, as well as more fuel-efficient traditional cars. But if Detroit really has had its Damascus moment, why is the American public getting such a different message than Congress? asks Rod Adams at Atomic Insight. Football fans over the Thanksgiving weekend were inundated with commercials for big pickup trucks, just the kind of gas-guzzling product Detroit ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.7
by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 3, 2008

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.

Solving global climate change problems requires more than just buying new cars with better mileage.

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