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Detroit's Critics Just Don't Get It on Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:21 pm
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The nation that invented the automobile has no intention of walking away from it. That nation is Germany, which gave the world its first carriage powered by an internal combustion engine in 1885.
But the nation that popularized the automobile via assembly-line production, the United States, seems less certain of its continued commitment to the car -- that is, to the car wearing a GM, Ford or Chrysler badge.
It's fundamentally unfair.
Detroit is getting a bum rap.
And if President Obama does not understand that, just as he clearly does not understand some basic facts of automotive history, as indicated by his misstatement last week about which country invented the automobile, he is likely to do Detroit more harm than good.
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But the nation that popularized the automobile via assembly-line production, the United States, seems less certain of its continued commitment to the car -- that is, to the car wearing a GM, Ford or Chrysler badge.
It's fundamentally unfair.
Detroit is getting a bum rap.
And if President Obama does not understand that, just as he clearly does not understand some basic facts of automotive history, as indicated by his misstatement last week about which country invented the automobile, he is likely to do Detroit more harm than good.
Read More
