Suddenly these Detroit auto CEOs are eco-friendly, and sweet-talking in DC. But where were you ten years ago? What about your famous Hummer brand? Sure, now that you want free money, you'll promise this and that, but as soon as you're back on your feet, it'll be, "Oh, well, the market's not quite there yet, and oh, it's so expensive, but we're making 50 test models, and oh, we're doing all that we can by investing in R&D, and oh, we have plans to release a hydrogen car in 2025." I've heard it all before.
A few months ago I said let's bail out the auto companies and include contracts saying that they'll green their fleet etc. Now I'm thinking the government should actually take over the companies, fire all the people who sued to stop California's Clean Car Regulations (I mean go through their email archive, and every single person who said yes let's sue - fired!), hire some people from Silicon Valley EV start-ups, and let them run the companies. Oh, and the new contracts will all say they they won't sue to stop new climate regulations, they won't fund climate denial groups, they will support gas taxes and fuel surcharges, and they will green their fleet, or else the company reverts back to the government, and they go to jail.
Sounds fair.
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