From Atlas Shrugged:
The president of a failed automobile company bragged that he was righteous because his company never made a profit.
Well - if the cars of the future are unprofitable, and GM was the most experienced, next to Chrysler, in building the unprofitable (net, net) cars of the past, what is Lutz complaining about? This is what they were born for, evidently.
As to a previous poster commenting that some CAFE standard offsetting cars are what wee need to have “Corvettes in the fleet” so the “fed” goes away happy...the point is they never go away happy, they just come back for more, time and again until there are no “Corvettes in the fleet”. Don’t be so sanguine with mollifying the “Fed”.