Obama Team to fix Laws of Physics

Obama Team to fix Laws of Physics
(From a senior level Chrysler person)


Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the guest speaker was Chairman David E. Cole, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and Professor at the Univ. of Michigan. You have likely heard CAR quoted in industry news lately.


Mr. Cole, an engineer by training, told many stories of the difficulty working with the folks that the Obama administration has sent to save the auto industry. There have been many meetings where a 40+ 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 relays his favorite story:


A team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole requested that the auto companies need to make a car that is 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 replied 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 "These laws of physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of them 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".


Anthony Elias Espinoza 2009