Posted on 07/14/2009 6:46:03 AM PDT by Little Ray
From a friend of my Father:
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 experienced 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".
RUN RUN RUN, THEY ARE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY ARE HERE TO HELP US!!!!
Classic.
I can't prove it.
Not surprising....The only thing dumber than presidential wonks, is congressional wonks.
Sorry, Snopes link is http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/physics.asp
Sounds like a hoax to me.
Wish we had the video for this on YouTube (if it happened).
Sounds like a hoax to me.
Why? Certainly not because it is not believable!
Well, I don’t find it believable at all.
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.
I still think that it sounds like Maxine Waters.
I wonder what people throughout all the 57 states would think of its plausability.
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“The laws of physics apply only to the states.”
DO NOT TRUST SNOPES as verification.
Remember, they scrubbed Obama’s “birth hospital” and changed it when he wrote the letter to the “hospital he claims he was born in” that had their 100th Anniversary . . . ON NON STANDARD “White House” stationery.
Repeat: DO NOT TRUST SNOPES. DO YOUR OWN DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH OF ANY MATTER RELATING TO ‘THE ONE WHO MUST BE OBEYED, PROTECTED, AND EXALTED TO CALIPHATE.’
I have seen my parents’ letter from President Reagan . . . the White House stationery that “0bama” used is missing a key indicator that it’s truly from “The White House.”
Psst! Try it with no customers first, like maybe for 10 years.
Snopes LMAO why not ask Zero?
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