Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Down with Detroit.

There can be only one legitimate response to this crisis. Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under. In the same way we have subsidized Big Oil by destabilizing the governments of petroleum rich countries, or outright invading them, we have subsidized Detroit long enough. Just as every barrel of oil is undervalued because we do not factor in that portion of the defense budget that helped bring that oil to market, so we have undervalued our government's, and therefore our, complicity in producing cars that not only were inferior, but drove Detroit itself right off a cliff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/the-rise-and-fall-of-detr_b_204462.html

The source of this paragraph is incredibly surprising. 

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