techcrunch.com - 12/1/2008
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Everybody these days has some advice for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Bail them out. Break up the unions. Do something about the dealerships. Do something about spiraling health care and pension costs. Design cars people will love. Etc. There’s always the “be more like Apple” ...
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boston.com - 12/8/2008
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boston.com —
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that
top executives at the nation's three automakers should be...
replaced if they don't use pending government loans to make major changes - including taking immediate steps to produce ...
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Obama cautions auto industry
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The Tesla Roadster: “Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It?”
The Moderate Voice —
... I’m against government meddling in the markets. But I would far prefer to see Tesla get any part of that money, if it must be distributed, than any of the big three automakers. As I wrote this weekend, the best thing for them, and for our country, is to just let them die. They are incapable of innovating given their current financial and logistical structure. Tesla, on the other hand, is actually doing something interesting. ...
The Apple of Autos
The American Scene —
Why is there no iPod of cars? For one thing, as Michael Arrington notes, Apple doesn’t actually make iPods.
The best way forward for the automotive industry is to rip itself apart and start doing things sensibly, like the PC industry does. It won’t make any one company more stable, of course. In fact, it means competition will regularly drive companies at every point in the process out of business. But none of those companies will be in a position to drive our economy south if they do go out of business. Someone better will just ...
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michellemalkin.com 11/13/2008 — Didn’t have time to post an alert beforehand, but I did a brief segment on Fox& Friends this morning on the mega-auto bailout. [...] Read the rest »
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corner.nationalreview.com 12/5/2008 — Detroit, Mich. -- They can't get it done.
That is the backroom word on Capitol Hill as auto executives from the Detroit Three wrapped up a second, and final, day of hearings before the House in attempt to get a $35 billion loan to keep them ...
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