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U.S. Automakers' Problems I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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two things:
1) if by lerning, he means US auto dolts never took the time to read The Reckoning, yeah, hes got a point. but hilberstam laid it all out, and his book is about 400 years old.
2) the energy issue also is about 400 years old, as anyone who rememmbers the 1970s' cat atest.
what were hearing now from the newly "enlightened" is such crap and 30 years to late..
All well said, and I'd agree entirely. The Halberstam book is especially to the point: I think it was published in about 1980, which is now basically an entire generation ago. And he said it all then.
Of course our political "leadership" has been almost criminal in their laxity about pushing the so-called CAFE standards, which obligate automakers to produce cars that reach certain fuel-efficiency targets (in part because they were protected for years by Detroit-area congressman John Dingell, lord of the Commerce Committee, when the Dems last ran the place).
But mostly, we as a society are not unlike we as individuals: energy efficiency tends to get our attention when supplies are tight or prices are high, and then we go back to our default setting of laxity when they're not. Shame on us all.
Couldn't read the article - members only.
Sorry. That's odd--for some reason it became members-only just shortly after I posted that link (I would never bother linking to something that no one can read).
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