Domestic Automakers
Pumping Chumps
Gas prices dip and Americans fall right back into the SUV habit. Sigh. Addiction really is a terrible thing.
January 5, 2009 | Read More
Electric Boogaloo: GM Promises To Build The Car It Killed
GM is promising to offer an electric car by 2010–a full 14 years after the company first started working to KILL the exact same technology.
December 4, 2008 | Read More
GM Bellies Up To The Bailout Table
It’s like the Bard said: “Ah, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to … throw taxpayer money at massive multinational corporations.” Okay, maybe Shakespeare wasn’t talking about Hank Paulson, Goldman Sachs, and now General Motors. But he could have been.
November 8, 2008 | Read More
Uncle Sam To GM: All I Got Is $25 Billion
Hank Paulson has apparently decided that General Motors - one of the biggest corporations on the planet, which employees 200,000 and provides health care and pensions to a million Americans - is not ‘too big too fail.’ But don’t feel too sorry for the behemoth multinational. It looks like Uncle Sam has found a way to toss a couple dozen billion its way after all.
November 3, 2008 | Read More
