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Volt Plant Will Take A Three-Week Summer Vacation

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 04.02.2012

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DETROIT -- General Motors Co. will suspend production of the Chevrolet Volt for an extra week this summer as it tries to control the electric car's in...

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WATCH: 'Halftime In America' Is Over In New Chrysler Ads

Posted 03.30.2012

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After Chrysler got the buzz it intended from its Clint Eastwood-backed "Halftime in America" Super Bowl ad, the automaker is moving on to the "second ...

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Ford's Comeback As 'American Icon'

David Kiley | Posted 05.16.2012

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David Kiley

If Ford matters to you, you are going to want to read "American Icon."

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American Workers: The Best Bet

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.05.2012

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Leo W. Gerard

Three years later, after President Obama placed his faith in workers, the nation's economic outlook is brighter. As is that of GM and Chrysler. President Obama wagered on American workers. And it paid off.

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GM Sales Up, But Ford And Chrysler Way Ahead

AP | Posted 03.01.2012

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DETROIT -- General Motors says its U.S. sales rose 1 percent last month, led by its small cars. Analysts had expected the company to post lower sales...

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Mother America Always Loved Manufacturing Most

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.28.2012

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Leo W. Gerard

It's illogical, even unpatriotic to use tax dollars to subsidize companies that send jobs overseas, transferring America's manufacturing power to foreign countries like China.

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Watch: Dirk Nowitzki Faces Big 3 In NBA Finals

Posted 07.28.2011

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Detroit Auto Show: Big Three Prove They're Still in The Game

Nick Aziz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nick Aziz

Yes, there are management problems. Yes, the wage gap must be eliminated. But when it's all said and done, the product is what will make or break the Detroit Three.

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Obama To Visit Big Three Auto Plants In Michigan, Illinois Next Week

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit U.S. auto plants in Michigan and Illinois next week to highlight his administration's decision to...

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How to Fix the U.S. Auto Industry

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

Disappearing ingenuity, poor design and dreadful marketing is to blame for Detroit's troubles, not the poor schlep who toils on the assembly-line for eight hours a day.

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On a Clear Day, What Will Be Left to See?

Charlie Cray | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charlie Cray

How is it that we seem to be using taxpayer money to rescue the U.S. auto companies, rather than restoring the U.S. auto industry?

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Economic Stimulus: Biodiesels as Giveaways Could Build Community, Consumer Awareness

Josh Tickell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Tickell

How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many!

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Big Three Meet With White House Task Force

wsj.com | MATTHEW DOLAN, NEIL KING JR. And JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Members of President Barack Obama's auto task force met with top procurement executives from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC thi...

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Save the Jeep; Save the Nation

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.

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From Electric Cars To Speedy Roadsters, The Newest Concept Cars (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post/AP | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Big Three automakers - GM, Chrysler, Ford - and their foreign counterparts tried to show that they're committed to environmentally-friendly, fashi...

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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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Sam Stein

Obama Commends Bush For Auto Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a statement sent out just now from his communications shop, President-elect Barack Obama announced his agreement with the Bush administration's dec...

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Ray LaHood at Transportation, What is Obama Thinking?

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Nelson

A Republican with a consistently bad record on environmental issues has just been nominated to run the Department of Transportation.

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

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This Sucks, but I'm Rooting Against the Auto Bailout...

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Nickolas

I really hate it when I find myself siding with the Republican Party on policy but I think this auto industry bailout is a piss-poor idea and I find myself rooting for the GOP to kill it.

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Automakers: Apology Accepted

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.

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The Big Three vs. the NFL: Who's Tougher?

Barry Levinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barry Levinson

I am beginning to lose my mind when I watch NFL football on Sunday. It's not the game that troubles me; it's the truck commercials.

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Big 3 Failure Would Cost Taxpayers Billions, Too

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. auto industry's problems will cost taxpayers plenty whether or not the government helps Detroit. Just walking away and le...

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