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

Wall Street Journal by Keith Johnson | Dec. 2, 2008 (News Analysis)

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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by Norman Rogers - Dec. 2, 2008

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.