Auto Industry

Journalist to GOP: You're 100 Percent Wrong About U.S. Automakers

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, George Bush, Harley-Davidson, Toyota, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Diane Tucker, Recession, Barack Obama, Ford Motor Co, Detroit Automakers, Chevrolet Volt, Bailout, General Motors, Economic Recession, Recession Fears, Tariffs, Financial Crisis, Peter De Lorenzo, Richard Shelby, Auto Industry, John McCain, GM Bankruptcy, Fuel Efficiency, Green Cars, Foreign Car Industry, Foreign Cars, Fuel Efficient Cars, Imported Cars, Gm Chapter 11, Congressional Bailout, Business News
Diane Tucker

"People who say the U.S. doesn't innovate are woefully out of touch with Detroit's standing in this business."

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Five Mistakes by DC and Detroit Hurt Detroit Three's Survival Shances

Steve Parker | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

Sen. Reid's new bailout bill for the Detroit Three does not set additional fuel-economy requirements, nor does it establish a government oversight board. That's two strikes against getting our money's worth.

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Desperate Auto Dealer: Buy 1 Car, Get 2nd For $1

Chicago Tribune | Lolly Bowean | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Frank Mancari, Chicagoland Car Dealers, Buy One Get One Free Car Oak Lawn, Chrysler Pacifica, Cars, Desperate Car Dealer Oak Lawn, Auto Industry, Oak Lawn Car Dealership, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Chicago News

An Oak Lawn car dealership has started a new and unusual promotion: Buy one 2008 Chrysler Pacifica and get a second car, a 2008 PT Cruiser, for $1. F...

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Poor Obama... It Gets More Complicated Every Day

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Obama Economy, US Auto Industry, Bailout, Gm, Auto Industry, Obama 60 Minutes, Auto Industry Bailout, Business News
Francine Hardaway

I've been debating with myself for weeks over whether we ought to bail out the auto industry. I made a little pro-con list for myself today.

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The Peculiar Politics of Bailing Out Detroit

Carl Pope | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Auto Industry, Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, The Big 3, Politics News
Carl Pope

The management of GM doesn't deserve to be bailed out, and it's not clear to me that a bailout would work -- certainly not as long as the company continues its "change as slowly as possible" pace.

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The Meaning of Change Will Be Tested by the Auto Industry Bailout

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Foreign Oil, Democratic Congress, Congress, Meet the Press, This Week, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Barack Obama, Auto Bailout, Obama Change, Tom Brokaw, General Motors, Obama 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes, David Brooks, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Richard Shelby, Auto Industry, Carl Levin, Global Warming, Automaker Bailout, Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The question shouldn't be whether or not to bail out the U.S. auto industry, but how assistance to the car manufacturers fits within the larger national energy plan that is greener, self-sustaining and economically positive.

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Detroit's Rebirth as the "Arsenal for America's Future"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Fireside Chats, CEO Tillerson, Nazi Germany, Electric Cars, Exxonmobil, Detroit, Israel, New York Times, Franklin Roosevelt, Green Energy, Denmark, Arsenal of Democracy, Greatest Generation, American Auto Industry, Renaultnissan, Automakers, Auto Industry, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

What a boon it would be to have a renaissance of our historic "Detroit Arsenal," with our government and the automobile industry working together once again on a program critical to the nation's well-being.

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Auto Workers Union Rules Out Concessions To Help Detroit Bailout

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Car Company Bailout, Car Industry Bailout, Financial Crisis, United Auto Workers Union, Auto Industry Bailout, Uwa, Auto Workers Union No Concessions, Barack Obama Auto Bailout, Republicans Auto Industry Bailout, Business News

With the House of Representatives pledging an aid package for the auto industry, the United Auto Workers (UWA) union fanned the flames a bit by refusi...

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Can We Stop Pretending California is 'Green,' Now?

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Green Living, California Wildfires, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Auto Industry, Nancy Pelosi, Green News
Jeffrey Feldman

Americans everywhere will continue to have sympathy with all those who suffer in your fires, but if you want us to take your claims to being 'green' seriously, start getting your suicidal groundwater abuse under control, California.

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Pelosi Pledges Aid To Automakers, Strings Attached

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nancy Pelosi, Auto Industry, House of Representatives, Auto Industry Bailout, Pelosi Auto Industry, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday the House would provide aid to the ailing U.S. auto industry, requiring that the industry ...

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10 Cars That Sank Detroit

US News | Rick Newman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Detroit, Detroit Cars, Cars, Auto Industry, Business News

The global financial crisis is suffocating the Detroit automakers, but the problems at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler have been festering for year...

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Bush Wants $25B In Loans Released To Carmakers

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Auto Industry, George Bush, Auto Bailout, Detroit Bailout, Bailout, Business News

WASHINGTON — Running out of time and scrambling for votes, supporters of a $25 billion government bailout for the teetering U.S. auto industry o...

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The Daily Szep: Caricature of GM's G. Richard Wagoner Jr.

Paul Szep | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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Paul Szep

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Bush's Last Gamble

David Sirota | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rahm Emanuel, George Bush, Workers, Wall Street, Bailout, Colombia, George W. Bush, Bush Colombia Trade Deal, Auto Industry, Politics News
David Sirota

Obama will not support linking the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to economic stimulus. That's good policy and good politics. It will also prevent Bush's last-ditch effort to fracture the Democratic Party.

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Give GM Real Help, Not Guilt-Driven Charity

Bart Motes | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Auto Industry, Economy, Business News
Bart Motes

The government can use the bailout money to set up a new universal healthcare and pension plan, releasing the industry of this massive obligation and giving them the opportunity to be competitive and a strong force in the marketplace.

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Car Confidential

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Rebates, Financing, Economy, Cars, Consumer Confidence, Automobile, Dealer, Recession, Auto Industry, Business News
Roseanne Colletti

Many automobile dealers contend it's not that consumers lack money, or credit or jobs, but that they have a serious lack of confidence.

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GM Wants A Bailout? Here Are The Conditions

Henry Blodget | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

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Henry Blodget

General Motors' lobbyists are trying to terrify the nation into keeping the company on life-support with another $25 billion bailout.

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Thoughts on GM from a GM Family

Ricky Van Veen | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Future of General Motors, General Motors, Economy, Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Gm, Auto Industry, Business News
Ricky Van Veen

All four of my grandparents were lifelong GM employees and my father worked there when he was young. Accordingly, its recent collapse has been a topic of conversation in my family.

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The Right Way To Bailout The Auto Industry

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Chrysler, General Motors, Economy, Ford, Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Uaw, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Bailouts, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Up to 3 million jobs -- directly in the industry and secondary jobs that rely on the auto industry's output -- would be effected by a collapse of the industry. That can't happen.

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Democrats Ready Emergency Legislation To Aid Auto Industry

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Industry, George Bush, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Auto Industry Bailout, Democrats, Emergency Auto Rescue Legislation, Auto Industry Rescue Legislation, Politics News

Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the imperiled auto industry when lawmakers re...

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Bail Out the Workers, Not the Plants

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Green Energy, Bailout, Auto Industry, Federal Bailout, Automakers, Big Three Automakers, George W. Bush, Auto Workers, Detroit, Cars, Barack Obama, Business News
Amitai Etzioni

Rescuing the Big Three is the contemporary version of saving the buggy and whip makers instead of investing in tomorrow's equivalent of car makers -- green industries, public transportation, and new technologies.

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The Next Bailout: Handouts or Hybrids?

Bill Scher | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Plug-in Hybrids, Bailout, Auto Industry, Global Warming, Electric Cars, Green News
Bill Scher

With the auto industry in dire straits, we taxpayers have maximum leverage to demand the cars necessary to help lower energy costs, cut carbon emissions and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

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The Next Economic Stimulus Should Help Those Who Need it Most

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Industry, Coalition on Human Needs, Insurance Industry, Bailout, Economy, Banks, Economic Stimulus, Poverty Reduction, Poverty, Barack Obama, Low-Income Housing, Politics News
Josh Nelson

Only a broad economic stimulus, targeted to help lower-income Americans, can get our country back on the right track.

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Buy American, Again

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Buy American Act of 1933, Economy, Detroit Crisis, Buy American, US Auto Industry, Buy American Act of 2009, Barack Obama Financial Crisis, GM Bankruptcy, New Deal, President Obama, Obama Administration, Fdr New Deal, Obama White House, Obama Financial Policy, General Motors, Financial Crisis, Auto Industry, President Elect Obama, Great Depression, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

When the second economic stimulus package is passed, the President should suggest that, as an act of loyalty to country, those planning to use this gift as down payment for a car, Buy American.

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Bailouts, Bubbles, Boils, and Trouble

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, New America Foundation, Richard Medley, Michigan, Economy, William Frenzel, World Trade Center, Michael Moore, Roger & Me, Consumption, China, Auto Industry, Japan, John Engler, Recession 2008, Recovery, Business News
Steve Clemons

Economic recovery cannot mean re-enabling the gluttony of manic consumption without pumping up "production" and getting a more balanced portfolio between what we produce at home and ship in from others.

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