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Someone call the whaaaaaaaaambulance, we’ve got a terminal case in John W. Snow, the chairman of Cerberus Capital Management, the company that’s buying Chrysler. According to him, a Senate bill that would raise the fuel economy standards to 35mpg for cars and light trucks by 2020 is

a set of standards that are so one-sided that they can’t be met and which have the risk of sinking the U.S. auto industry.

Oh do shut up, Mr. Snow. Your industry is slowly killing the environment, and you have the technology to easily meet these goals. Your bad business decisions are sinking the U.S. auto industry. Why is it that Japanese auto manufacturers aren’t crying about this bill? Why just the U.S. auto manufacturers who insist on building gas guzzling Hummers and Escalades instead of pushing hybrids and alternative-fuel vehicles? Maybe you might want to take some lessons from Toyota or Honda on how to run an auto manufacturing company instead of putting your head in the sand and saying “whaa the government is trying to kill us whaa”.

via the new york times