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" So the Pres met with the CEO&amp;#039;s of the big three automakers today. I&amp;#039;d love to have been a fly on that wall\u2026 did he give them the tongue-lashing they deserve?  Look, it&amp;#039;s no secret that the big three have been asleep at the switch. GM is showing some signs of life with their commitment to the Volt plug-in electric platform, but that&amp;#039;s still three or four years off, best case scenario. Ford has a toe in the hybrid waters, but they don&amp;#039;t seem keen to get too wet. And Daimler-Chrysler is putting its chips on clean diesel.  None of these are bad things. But they&amp;#039;re sure as heck not enough. And to hear Mr Bush and the chiefs of these company&amp;#039;s say it, E85 is going to save our collective butts from the specter of global warming and the thorny mess of dependence on foreign oil. Um, nice idea, folks. And maybe when we get cellulostic ethanol. But until then, watch and weep as corn prices get higher, food gets more expensive, and our oil imports continue to rise. And all the while, the technology exists to dramatically increase the fuel efficiency of American cars and (to a lesser extent) trucks.  By-the-by: How come Toyota wasn&amp;#039;t invited to the shin-dig? The invite musta gotten lost in the mail. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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