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posted 05-14-2012 11:30 AM                  

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A very big thanks to Michigan member Mike Partridge who sent in this bit of humor, which was forwarded from a senior level person at Chrysler. The date on this note was Sunday, July 19,2009.
Monday morning, I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman Center fot Automotive Reasearch (CAR and Professor at the University of Michigan). You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto indusrty news lately.
Mr. Cole, who is an engineer by traininf, 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 experienced automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero finance experience, tell them how to run their business.
Mr Cole's favorite story is as follows: There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole (engineer, automotive experience of 40+ years, and Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enoughcombined 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 web site.
Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a TRUNK FULL of batteries and a LNG tank as big as the car to make That happen, and the laws of physics that prevented the from....
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here): "These laws of Physics? Whose 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 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 the sorts of issues."

..... And these are the same people who are going to fix healthcare?!!

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posted 05-14-2012 10:13 PM                  

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Whoops! Nevermind.

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