Shuster (MSNBC) had the previous Michigan governor (I think) talking about Bush in 2001

[LittleApple81]

telling the auto industry not to worry about fuel economy or redesigning cars... I do remember that because I was so upset about that and the CAFE standards essentially being gutted at the time. I found an article discussing this just for the memories. I am sure that there are many more articles, but I don't want to keep on searching.

By the way, Shuster did not let him finish, which surprised me.

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2001/01/26/motavalli-sucks/

Bush Sucks
Meet the Bush team, brought to you by ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Texaco
By Jim Motavalli
26 Jan 2001

To an extraordinary degree, the administration assembled by George W. Bush is made up of men and women with experience in the automobile and oil industries. With the energy crisis in California, such energy expertise at the helm, it would seem, must be a good thing.

Would that it were so. In reality, the Bush team is so tilted toward Big Oil that it will never give a thought to the only possible lasting solutions to our deepening problems: mass transit and energy conservation.

We Americans must really love our cars; we spend an hour a day in them. The average family takes 10 car trips a day, mostly for shopping, socializing, and recreation. For every 10 transit miles in the U.S., more than nine are taken in a car. Every year, we use up 100 billion gallons of oil, more than half of it (56 percent) imported. If present trends continue, we'll be importing two-thirds of our oil in 20 years. That isn't love -- it's addiction.

SUV
Living in an SUV-owner's paradise.
If every American drove a 70-mile-per-gallon hybrid Honda Insight instead of a gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle, we could stop importing oil tomorrow, but that kind of thinking is not on the agenda. Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have backgrounds as oil executives -- in fact, Cheney was plucked into the campaign directly from the helm of the Texas-based oil services giant Halliburton, which helped rebuild Iraq's petroleum industry after the Persian Gulf War. And both Bush and Cheney support increased domestic drilling, most radically in the highly sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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[ErinBerin84]

1. didn't they just run out of time? It didn't sound to me like Shuster wouldn't let him finish.

Just that time was up. Anyway, it was very interesting...he made some good points.

on edit: now that I think of it...he DID have time to show the "pretty" screen shot of NYC...that was weird...

[Kahuna]

2. I remember Ari Fleischer saying it is our God-given right to drive

gas guzzlers and bush giving tax credits for the purchase of Hummers. I remember Jerry Falwell bragging about driving his gas-guzzling SUVs.