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washingtonpost.com - 11/11/2008
Automakers Tell House to Lay Off On Fuel Economy
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washingtonpost.com - 11/11/2008
Obama Asks Bush to Back Rescue of Automakers
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washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
George Will - Let the Automakers Go Bankrupt
— washingtonpost.com — "Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for... the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. auto industry." Nothing? Not even the evaporation of ... (more) George Will - Let the Automakers Go Bankrupt
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foodbeforefuel.org - 11/18/2008
Home Page | Food Before Fuel
— foodbeforefuel.org — What is the Food Before Fuel Campaign? The Food Before Fuel Campaign was created to urge public... officials to revisit and restructure policies that have increased our reliance on food as an energy source, and to carefully address how to develop ... (more) Home Page | Food Before Fuel
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Wonk Room:  Fox News: We Don’t Need GM, Ford ‘Ponzi Schemes’

Think Progress:  Conservative Politicians Misleadingly Blame Labor Unions For Detroit’s Woes

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Fox News: We Don’t Need GM, Ford ‘Ponzi Schemes’
Wonk Room — ... Ironically, the Fox anchors are right when they criticize the manufacturers for their history of fighting higher fuel economy standards (although they completely ignored the proximate causes of the frozen credit markets and a spiraling recession). Of course, Fox is normally rabidly against any government regulations or conservation of fossil fuels. Their mindless drumbeat ...

Conservative Politicians Misleadingly Blame Labor Unions For Detroit’s Woes
Think Progress — ... Big Three automaker CEOs and executives based their business model on a future of cheap oil, fighting fuel efficiency standards despite warnings against such a strategy. Detroit manufactured, as Tom Friedman pointed out, ...

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