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Archive for December 20th, 2008

If the goal is to be more fuel efficient and lower our carbon footprint, then let’s not pussy-foot around the issue. Congress should find some big brass kahones and really address the issue head-on. My suggestion for a solution – simply pass a law that effectively says, “By the year 2020 no new motor vehicle sold in the United States for passenger use will run on petroleum based fuels or derivatives thereof.”

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He will need to rebuild America’s manufacturing infrastructure by convincing the unions that they are not existing in a vacuum. The need to know that they are competing worldwide against other workers and not just U.S. workers. If they know this, their actions indicate that they do not. Their long term survival and especially the UAW’s long term survival depends on making steep concessions to the Detroit Three.

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