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How Detroit's lost clout in Washington may actually help the auto industry.

 

Published 12/2/2008 by Brian Ladd at (Obsolete Feed)

Who says America's Big Three automakers are lumbering, bureaucratic relics incapable of reading the public mood? Just last month, their CEOs traveled to Washington on their corporate jets. (At least partly because of that decision, they returned home with no federal largesse and hardly any public sympathy.) For this week's visit, at least two of the CEOs plan to drive—and the third, Chrysler's Robert Nardelli, says he won't be taking a private jet. [ more ... ] (link)

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