Feds apologize for encouraging employees to buy fuel-efficient Japanese cars 3

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   timdiller Posted 1:32 pm
   22 Sep 2007

   Who's the bigger idiot?I'm not sure whether Rep. Camp's head in the sand or Mr. Ellis' lack of a spine is more impressive. Some nice PC on display... :-/

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   FourLocks Posted 10:29 pm
   24 Sep 2007

   Typical Washington reactionMr. Ellis should be praised, not chastised, for suggesting 67,000 Health & Human Services employees consider purchasing fuel efficient vehicles.  The Bush administration's knee-jerk reaction of reprimanding Mr. Ellis's for his sound advice in response to Detroit's whining once again shows where the republican administration's priorities lie.
   There is certainly a clear connection between environmental quality and public health.  Representative Stupak's decree that the Department of Health & Human Services has no right to consider the effects of automobile emissions on public health, but should instead focus on "providing health care for children," is the equivalent of saying we should stop focusing on preventive medicine and instead focus on  disease treatment.
   Considering Detroit's history of ignoring the need to create fuel efficient vehicles while churning out high-profit low-mileage SUV's, it's hard to feel sympathetic for them.  After all, it's not like the fuel cost issue or customer demand for fuel-efficient vehicles suddenly materialized in the past year...or past decade, for that matter.  It's a good thing Detroit hasn't developed its economy around leech farming or we'd have the Bush administration forcing us to choose blood letting over antibiotics.
   
   

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   KenG Posted 8:34 am
   25 Sep 2007

   Tunnel VisionYes, Mr. Ellis should be chastised. Not for encouraging purchase of fuel efficient cars, but for missing the fact that GM, Ford and Chrysler all have a number of high mileage small cars avaialable. Yes, Detroit is trying to sell high profit cars, but have you looked at the Honda, Toyota or Nissan SUVs, trucks and high performance sedans lately? That's where they make the most profit.

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