Al Gore. C-student in college, but he's still smarter than the PhDs and marketing & design specialists in the auto industry. What's next? He'll tell Ted Nugent how to finger a power chord? Or how best to release the his arrow with a 10-point whitetail is in his sights? Actually, I'd like to see him try either of those, because you know damn well he thinks Uncle Ted could use his advice on such matters.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmIyZmMwYTcyZGQ3YmZkY2Y3YjkwOTFkNzhiZjU2ZjA=
Al Gore. Inventor of the Internet. Climatologist. Now add auto industry expert to the list.
The Goracle raised blood pressures in Detroit Wednesday when he lectured U.S. automakers on their business model. A main reason "our auto companies are in trouble," he told the Senate climate panel, is "they got all these gas guzzlers they can't sell that people don't want to buy.”
Bunkum.
In December, GM rode the backs of double-digit sales increases in its big new Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs to turn its first quarterly profit in two years. Just last month, sales of its biggest gas-guzzler - the Chevy Suburban - were up a whopping 33 percent. Profit margins on light trucks run upwards of $7000 a vehicle, which is foreign makers have also been jumping into the SUV market.
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