The Unions make it very hard for Detroit to be flexible, change course quickly, or make much profit out of smaller or economy cars.
I think that Washington DC, with its hostile attitude towards energy, and the resulting gasoline price fluctuations, together with our ridiculous environmental laws ALL contributed greatly to the demise of Detroit.
Unions and Greens -—
A horrible combination!
Even worse are corporate execs who did not fight back, and caved into the crazies!
The Japanese auto companies were somehow able meet our ridiculous environmental laws.
Not sure why GM and Chrysler were not able to do the same.
Ford did it, and they did not have to go to Bush or Obama and Beg for Billions.