How to Bring the Japanese out of Economic Doldrums
Keep choosing to be uncompetitive in the clean car race. Guest blogger Eric Rauchway at Altercation makes the valuable point that by dragging our feet, Japan is moving ahead. Gregg Easterbrook has done some great work on how the US Government under both Clinton and Bush have created an incredibly inefficient program to supposedly encourage better gas mileage. The Bush continuation is missing from TNR Online (or I’m too stupid to find it). However, he has instituted the same mechanism for fuel cell cars.