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Category Archives: Automotive Industry

Obama’s Fuel Economy Standard too low

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Today’s big news is that Obama has set new Fuel Economy Standards with the blessing of California and the Auto Manufacturers who normally can’t agree on anything. But 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks seems a little low to me. Ok, very low. My 1995 luxury sedan is only a couple [...]

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Big Three suing with our $14 billion bailout

Friday, February 6, 2009

Heres a business plan for you. Build cars. Build big gas guzzling machines that weigh 2-4 tons. Don’t change the basic design, or increase it’s efficiency for 20-40 years. Sue any government agency, or pretty much anyone who wants to pass a law to enforce an increased standard in efficiency and environmentally friendliness. Hit a [...]

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US Automakers don’t quite get it

Monday, November 24, 2008

Even now I’m still up in the air about our $700 Billion Dollar bailout. It seems that Financial companies are simply sitting on the money or using it to buy out their smaller in trouble competitors. The money isn’t doing what it was supposed to do. That alone pisses me off. But no, there is [...]

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