Big Three Automakers

Perfect Storm for Innovation Gathers in Washington

Neil Young | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Auto Bailout, Green Cars, Big Three Automakers, Better Place, Fuel Efficiency, Cars, Car Czar, Green Living, The Automotive X Prize, Neil Young, Green News

Innovators should swarm like locusts on Washington in January, February and March to show the Car Czar how to make fuel-efficient cars.

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Economic Stimulus: Biodiesels as Giveaways Could Build Community, Consumer Awareness

Josh Tickell | Posted 12.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Green Living, Congress, Big Three Automakers, Big 3, Biofuels, Big Three, Environment, Biodiesel Fuel, The Big 3, Green Energy, Biodiesel, Home News

How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many!

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Procrastination Doesn't Fix It

Joan Blades | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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Why not convert one third of the automakers' industrial capacity to building state-of-the-art wind generation? We need to be strategic in solving our economic and energy woes.

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Algergone

Bob Franken | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Corruption, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Madoff, Economic Crisis, Enron, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Politics News

If only Horatio Alger had been around today instead of the 19th century, so he could write new stories about how hard work is all it takes to make your fortune. He would have so much material.

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Bailout or Not, Nothing Will Be the Same for Drivers or Detroit

Trevor Traina | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Vehicle manufacturers must re-engage their owners and offer them innovative services. What if GM included ads in exchange for lower pricing? What if they developed an in-dash system with Google or Apple?

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White House Still "Gathering Information" While Detroit Suppliers go Bankrupt

Steve Parker | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Toyota Camry, Chapter 11, White House, Thailand, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Flint, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Cars, Detroit News, Arizona, Facebook, Ford, Detroit Newspapers, Key Plastics, Los Angeles Auto Show, Mark Fields, Southern California, Larry King, Daewoo Lacetti, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Ford Flex, President Bush, Carl Levin, President-Elect Barack Obama, China Brilliance, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Minivan, Alan Mulally, Special Devices, Detroit Three, Gran Torino, Detroit Free Press, Washington DC, Sandy Levin, Clint Eastwood, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze, Bill Ford, TARP and Auto Bailout, Henry Ford, Detroit Three Loans, South Korea, European Cars, Henry Paulson, Sabic, Detroit Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Unions, Auto Industry, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Unemployment, The Big 3, Labor Unions, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News

Even Bush doesn't want to go down in history as the man who oversaw the destruction of GM, Ford and Chrysler (I hope), and I'd guess Obama wishes he could install his own new team now and fire Paulson.

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Holding the Auto Industry Hostage to Anti-Union Animus

Roger Smith, AIL | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Three Automakers, Wages, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Labor Unions, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Automaker Bailout, Bob Corker, The Big 3, Unions, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News

Rep. Bob Corker and his colleagues have stooped to a new low in sacrificing the nation's economic recovery to their anti-union ideology.

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Is the GOP Risking the Economy to Win the PR War Against Unions?

Art Levine | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Republican Senators, Gop, Employee Free Choice Act, Corker, Auto Industry Bailout, Uaw, Mitch Albom, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Labor Unions, Cars, Unemployment, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Unions, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame game for the troubled auto industry and the failed bailout deal.

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Ditch the Automobile Altogether

Joe Lauria | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Railroads, Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Auto Industry, Greenhouse Gases, Business News

Why not take those millions of dollars that create sophisticated commercial propaganda all day on television to induce us to buy a car and put it to work reducing greenhouse gases instead?

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Don't Blame Japan, O.C. Welch. Blame Yourself.

Disgrasian | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Toyota, Chrysler, General Motors, Xenophobia, Detroit, Imported Cars, Ford, Auto Industry, O.C. Welsh, Business News

South Carolina car dealer O.C. Welsh seems to take some comfort in taking a toe to the pup -- he released five radio ads last week attacking patriots for buying Japanese cars.

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Musings II

Norman Cressy | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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Weeks ago Republicans berated Democrats for suggesting that a company should be told what to manufacture -- hybrid cars, for example--that was not Government's job to do

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Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead

Michael Moore | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

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The Mistake in Bailouts

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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Perhaps the shock to banking would be too great just now. I'm willing to be persuaded that intervention is necessary there. But the more I read about the auto industry, the less I am convinced.

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This Sucks, but I'm Rooting Against the Auto Bailout...

Mark Nickolas | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Car Company Bailout, Toyota Prius, Hybrid Cars, Big Three, Detroit, Cars, Unions, Politics News

I really hate it when I find myself siding with the Republican Party on policy but I think this auto industry bailout is a piss-poor idea and I find myself rooting for the GOP to kill it.

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If G.M. Was a Canadian Company It Wouldn't Be Asking for Help

Dean Baker | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

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If we paid the same amount for health care as Canada, G.M. would have accumulated an additional $22 billion in profits over the last decade.

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Bottom-up Blindness; The Reason to Fire Detroit Execs

Rob Kall | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Toyota, Big Three Automakers, General Motors, Gm, Peter Drucker, Economy, Economic Crisis, Cars, Chris Dodd, Bottom Up, Bottom-Up, Business, Business News

The Big Three management is stuck with a petrified top-down mentality that's unable to provide the vision and leadership necessary for American auto manufacturing to succeed.

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Modern Joads

Jeff Danziger | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, US Automakers, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Cars, Nardelli, Alan Mullaly, Political Cartoons, Big Three Automakers, The Big Three, Joads, Detroit Bailout, Big Three Private Jets, Detroit, Grapes of Wrath, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News

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Triage for the Big Three Automakers

Philip G. Baker | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, The Big 3, Big Three Automakers, US Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News

Forget about trying to save all three manufacturers. By doing so with the limited funds available, we'll help none of them. To rebuild our auto industry, we need to create a sound foundation.

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Remember Willow Run

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 12.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Michigan, Gm Willow Run, Auto Industry, Willow Run, Auto Bailout, Business News

If Congressional leaders are serious about this $15 billion bailout saving the economy... I have three words for them: Remember Willow Run.

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Model A's to Solar Cells

Carl Pope | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Gm, Auto Bailout, Solar Power, Big Three Automakers, Photovoltaics, Green Energy, Detroit Bailout, Green News

Has no one learned anything? Detroit's dedication to fighting technological innovations in fuel economy was the biggest factor in costing the Big Three so much market share that a recession could send them into bankruptcy.

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Ha! Would You Buy A Car Designed By OUR Government?

Diane Tucker | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Gasoline Prices, Wall Street Crisis, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, General Motors, David Cole, Robert Nardelli, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford Motor Company, Diane Tucker, Financial Crisis, Business News

Thanks to CEO Alan Mulally, Ford made a profit in the first quarter of 2008. What's more, Mulally saw the credit crisis coming and fought to get a line of credit for Ford way back in 2006.

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Call for Resignation of GM's Lutz, Too, as Condition of Bailout

David Sassoon | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business

Forcing out GM's Bob Lutz may seem like a sideshow to the much bigger issues needing resolution to rescue Detroit, but if you believe in the power of gesture, maybe not.

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Let Big Oil Bail Out the Auto Industry

Robbie Gennet | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business

Seems like such a simple solution, doesn't it? After all, who has influenced the US Auto Industry (USAI) to keep MPG low and fight CAFE standards? Why...

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The Auto Bailout and Post-Partisanship?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Administration, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Government Bailout, United Auto Workers, Economy, Ford, Congress, Obama, Bush, Chrysler, Mark Zandi, General Motors, Ron Gettelfinger, Bob Corker, Auto Industry Bailout, Auto Industry, Senate, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Gm, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Chysler, Politics News

This is a mess. Everybody in the auto industry is staring into the abyss - the automakers, the unions, the suppliers, the dealers - not to mention the government and the taxpayers.

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Weekly Audit: Chicago workers strike back, jobs strike out, Obama strikes new New Deal Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Economy, Newsladder, Unions, Economy NewsLadder, Barack Obama, Politics News

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire blogger President-elect Barack Obama rolled out his highly anticipated priorities for an economic recovery...

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