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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Mike LaBonte
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by Mike LaBonte - Dec. 2, 2008

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.

I had noticed the TV ads and wondered the very same thing? Why are they pushing their very worst MPG vehicles at the very moment they are in Washington making their green promises?

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