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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

 I recently attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. 
Cole, Chairman Center for Automotive Research (CAR). You have all likely 
heard Cole CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto industry news lately. 

Mr. Cole, who is an engineer by training, told many stories of the difficulty 
of working with the folks that the Obama administration has sent to save the 
auto industry. There have been many meetings where a 30+ year experience 
automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with 
zeromanufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero business 
experience, zero finance experience, and zero engineering experience, tell 
them how to run their business.

His favorite story is as follows:

There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr Cole (Engineer, automotive 
experience 40+ years, Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. Cole that 
the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and lquid natural 
gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so 
many gas stations (A whole other topic). They were quoting BTU's of LNG and 
battery life that they had looked up on some website.

Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries 
and a LNG tank at big as a car to make that happen and that there were 
problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...

The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) "These laws of 
physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others 
wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and 
the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive 
order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort 
of issues".


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I DON'T know if the above is a true story,,, but I sure thought it was funny 
true or not !!   
 
:-)





 



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Did you catch the AP article that came out last night after his little speech 
on Obamacare?
I was stunned to see the AP basically call him a liar (in polite words), and 
pointed out his conflicting statements made last night.
 
Honeymoon is over.
 

--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:




The guy's a serial liar and has a whole organization to handle those lies. 
Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley




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Maybe someone forgot to tell them that the size of the trunk mattered.

Seriously what ever happened to bio-fuel? I remember a few years ago being 
told that food prices were higher because a large number of farmers had 
switched from grains to corn for ethanol production.

If I were a gamblilng man I'd bet that the government is still paying farmers 
a premium to produce ethanol to be stock piled but I haven't heard anything 
on the topic for quite awhile now.

Gil



On Jul 23, 2009, cayadopi AT yahoo.com wrote:




They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car 
that was electric and lquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 
500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (A whole other topic). 
They were quoting BTU's of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on 
some website.
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I DON'T know if the above is a true story,,, but I sure thought it was funny 
true or not !!

:-)