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"Detroit fought the Senate bill, arguing -- as usual -- that it would be too expensive to comply with."
I received my driver's license during the oil embargo in October, 1973, that occasioned the Yom Kippur War. At that time the U.S. got about 30% of its oil from OPEC. Now that amount is around 50%. Meanwhile, Detroit's automakers dithered the decades away keeping CAFE standards, for the most part, low. Now, the Big 3 move like slugs sloshing toward slightly higher CAFE standards for the first time in several decades while brave Americans die in Iraq. Where's is Detroit's patriotism?
And what about us--the consumers who buy autos made by Detroit's Big 3? Speaking strictly for me, when my gas guzzling Taurus is paid for I'm going to buy a high-mileage Japanese hybrid. It's better for people, it's better for the planet, it's better for patriotism. Besides, it's as obvious as a sign for higher prices at the gas pumps that Detroit's Big 3 don't love America.
