“What is it about Michigan that seems to encourage assisted suicide?” “What I don’t get is empty-barrel politics — Michigan lawmakers year after year shielding Detroit from pressure to innovate on higher mileage standards, even though Detroit’s failure to sell more energy-efficient vehicles has clearly contributed to its brush with bankruptcy, its loss of market share to Toyota and Honda — whose fleets beat all U.S. automakers in fuel economy in 2007 — and its loss of jobs.” Ouch, Tom Friedman. (via)
Et Tu, Toyota?
04 Oct 2007 By
