Posted on 06/17/2009 10:48:25 AM PDT by ignorancerunsrampant
(From a senior level Chrysler person)
Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman Center for Automotive Research (CAR and Professor at the Univ. of Michigan. You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto industry news lately.
Mr. Cole, who is an engineer by training, told many stories of the difficulty of working with the folks that the Obama administration has sent to save the auto industry. There have been many meetings where a 30+ year experience automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero finance experience, and zero engineering experience, tell them how to run their business.
Mr Cole's favorite story is as follows:
There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole (Engineer, automotive experience 40+ years, Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (A whole other topic). They were quoting BTU's of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on some website.
Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries and a LNG tank at big as a car to make that happen and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) "These laws of physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues".
You forgot the “satire” tag...
The Obama-bots trying to repeal the Laws of Physics, LOL.
Shades of Lysenko in Soviet Russia trying to repeal the laws of Biology
I imagine you have to explain the LAW of gravity to them too! LOL
Lysenkoism born again....
Dave Cole is a horse’s ass who capitalized on his father’s reputation. Not even funny.
Wow. Actually I think we can believe it could happen.
It really is like "Atlas Shrugged". It's been a while since I read the chapter, so I may have the details wrong, but there is a great scene where a government functionary (Kip Chalmers, if I remember correctly) is in a hurry to go through the Rockies. The electric locomotive is broken and only an old coal locomotive is available. He says "Use that!" They explain to him that the tunnel is too long, and that the coal smoke would suffocate everyone before they exit. He says "Go fast!"
Anyway, the train goes, everyone dies, the train stops in the middle of the tunnel.
Next thing you know, a train from the other side of the Rockies comes through, slams into the stopped train the middle of the tunnel, and destroys the major RR passage through the Rockies.
Opps. Maybe sometimes listening to experts is a good idea.
Can’t possibly be true.
No LNG cars. I can barely afford to heat my house as it is.
Congress, yes, but pre-Obama...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/physics.asp
You must really like these Obama people and what they are doing to our country. I guess you are upset that someone told what they are really doing. Maybe you would be happy if David Cole was hauled off to the gulag.
The gist of it”
“We asked Dr. Cole directly about this anecdote, and his response was that it had been garbled: He said that although he did once encounter, in a meeting with members of Congress, the suggestion that a “law of physics” should be legislatively amended, that meeting took place several years ago and did not involve representatives of the Obama administration (with whom Dr. Cole has never met):
I have not met personally with the Obama Auto Task Force. The comments related to the “laws of physics” came from a discussion I had a number of years ago with several congressmen who said that we should pass a new 2nd law of thermodynamics.”
Shades of the adminsitration in Atlas Shrugged.
“There have been many meetings where a 30+ year experience automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero finance experience, and zero engineering experience, tell them how to run their business.”
They wouldn’t have to if they knew how to run a business themselves.
Doesn’t need the satire tag. The stupid tag they attached to themselves is much better!!
“These laws of physics? Who’s rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That’s why we are here, to fix these sort of issues”.
Wow! What a stupid, ignorant person this guy had to be....he must also believe that BHO will control the sea levels too!
Once you own a Mac instead of a PC, and an IPhone you are superior in everyway, so laws of Physics do not apply to you cause there is an app for it.
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