U.S.
Automakers - A great Memorial Day Insult?
Friday,
May 25, 2007
Honor
our soldiers by buying a foreign-oil dependence-increasing
gas-guzzler?
Heading into the Memorial Day Weekend, U.S. automakers are
beginning an ad
campaign to convince Americans that CAFE increases are
bad for America. Such a move, they argue, is too
expensive, too limiting and too unsafe.
How safe and cost effective is America's foreign
oil dependence?
The world is on the brink of massive chaos - chaos
significantly created and nurtured by America's dependence
upon cheap, foreign oil - yet we do nothing? Even worse,
heading into the Memorial Day weekend, U.S. automakers
launch a campaign to warn America about the dangers of
trying to do something about foreign oil dependency?
Nice timing.
Still, I understand that it won't be easy to end foreign
oil dependency - it's our generation's moonshot, some have
called it. But with every crisis there is an opportunity.
Detroit needs to stop telling America that's it too
expensive to end foreign oil dependence. Rather Detroit
needs to work with Congress to create a real-world plan to
end foreign oil dependency.
Enough partisanship. Enough politics. Enough profiteering.
It's time for action, not excuses. It's time for
leadership.
The benefits of ending foreign oil dependency could
revolutionize the U.S. auto industry and U.S.
manufacturing, while inspiring a nation to greatness. The
costs of not acting, however, threaten not just the U.S.
auto industry, but the entire U.S. economy - not to
mention our security.
Will we, the consumers, voters and tax-payers of America,
demand it?
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