boston.com - 12/8/2008
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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 energy-efficient vehicles - in a clear signal that he ...
weeklystandard.com - 12/13/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Plenty of car makers make a go of
it in this country--they're just non-union and not headquartered...
in Detroit. by Fred Barnes 12/22/2008, Volume 014, Issue 14
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The Other American Auto Industry
msnbc.msn.com - 12/10/2008
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msnbc.msn.com —
With Congress considering lending $15 billion in taxpayer
money to the Big Three, some in Congress are...
worried the automakers will spend part of it overseas.
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An all-American auto industry bailout?
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Obama: Auto CEOs That Don't Get It Should Go
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
At a press conference Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama voiced his views on auto company executives:
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 energy-efficient vehicles - in a clear signal that he expects a bailout to be predicated on a wholesale restructuring of the industry.
"We have to have an auto industry that understands they can't keep on doing things the ...
Obama: Auto CEOs That Don't Get It Should Go
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
At a press conference Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama voiced his views on auto company executives:
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 energy-efficient vehicles - in a clear signal that he expects a bailout to be predicated on a wholesale restructuring of the industry.
"We have to have an auto industry that understands they can't keep on doing things the ...
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