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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Gary Clark
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by Gary Clark - Dec. 2, 2008

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?

Short-term profits dictate short sighted corporate plans, and what we need is transportation for ensuing eras of declining oil supplies.

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