Let's Pay Detroit to bring their gas sipping cars home to the U.S.


	Let's Pay Detroit to bring their gas sipping cars home to the U.S.

spirithiker

11-30-2008 9:57 AM

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automobile, fuel efficiency, global warming, carbon footprint, bailout

spirithiker says:

Great idea! The Big 3 have been making fuel efficient cars for Europe for years, why not bring them here?

Detroit needs money, and we need efficient vehicles. Let’s make a deal: We taxpayers will provide the funding to retool their factories to build just the specific models that are in the Common Good. We’ll fund retooling to build any models that help solve the climate crisis by getting better than 50 mpg, right now. It’s a win-win.

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12-1-2008 7:51 AM

prin1

absolutely!

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