Big Three Sue , then Beg

California And Detroit Go To War Over Gas Mileage


For more than three decades Detroit's Big Three and their allies have successfully blocked or limited changes to the nation's fuel economy rules. However, with General Motors and Chrysler LLC facing bankruptcy, the carmakers are making what could be one last stand, and this one they may well lose.


Only in America do the businesses *SUE* the government when they try and do something.


Environmentalists are insisting that one of the conditions of continuing federal assistance to the automakers is that they withdraw their support for the federal lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Automobile Manufactures in California, which up until now has been supported by both domestic and foreign carmakers.

So far the automakers haven't killed the lawsuit.


I love this country. The Air in Los Angeles is unbreathable on a hot day there's so much smog it will kill you. And when the government tries to regulate car emmissions to fix that problem , the Big Three sue them to put a halt to it.

Oh no , that would put a dent in our car sells, you can't do that. Let those people die !


"Our analysis suggests that allowing California and other states to regulate CO2 emissions, and thus fuel economy, will further damage companies that are struggling, like GM, Ford and Chrysler, and much of their supply base, and potentially destabilize relatively healthy companies like Toyota and Nissan."


Our highly biased research that says exactly whatever the heck we feel like making it say , suggests that doing anything to hurt our sales is a bad thing.

This is Capitalism at it's Finest ???

Is it too late to rethink the whole communism thing ?