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Laws of Physics

 From a senior level Chrysler person: Monday morning I
 attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was
 David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive
 Research (CAR), an Engineer with 40+ years automotive
 experience, full Professor at the Univ. of Michigan.

 You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in
 the auto industry news lately. Mr. Cole 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 this very experienced
 automotive expert has had to listen to a newcomer to the
 industry; someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero
 auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero
 finance experience, zero engineering experience, and
 apparently zero brains 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. 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 they had looked up on some web site.

 Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk
 FULL of batteries, and a LNG tank as 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? Whose rules are those? We need to
 change that (while others wrote down the name of the law 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."

 My friends ... we are screwed.

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