Hi Dave,
How do you know who will lead the EPA? The top Google search
item for this turns up:
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Bloomberg's projected short list for EPA top dog: Democratic Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, 60, once considered to have a shot at Obama's veep slot ultimately filled by Delaware Sen. Joe Biden; Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection; Mary Nichols, chair of California's Air Resources Board; and Ian Bowles, secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
A flashier but potentially fiery pick, according to Bloomberg: enviro activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., scion of the Kennedy dynasty and occasional Rolling Stone contributor. Kennedy, 54, son of Ethel and the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, chairs the Waterkeeper Alliance, an organization based in Irvington, N.Y., dedicated to promoting clean water, but he has taken some heat from the science community for his belief in a connection between autism and vaccines, an issue examined in detail by Scientific American Mind columnists Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz in 2007.
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Back on topic: I would agree that not paring down the stupidly overwrought product line down to a minimum will virtually guarantee than GM will fail. Hard choices have to be made, sooner rather than later: simplify everything about GM or lose everything.
Build the EV1 right now as a Saturn. Do a quick "EcoModder" overhaul on the most economical models. Build utilitarian trucks, and cars: hatchbacks, sedans, station wagons, and the smallest minivans, only.