Originally Posted by jason702

some interesting politics went into the collapse of our auto industry. i was just watching a documentary about it the other night. the cliff note version is this. under clinton, we pushed for higher fuel standards and hybrid technology. the irony is, this scared japan. they started developing hybrids because they feared that if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to compete. then bush came along and we stopped pursuing it. we went back to producing gas guzzling SUVs. so the japanese beat us to the punch. now we're the ones that can't compete. oops.