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Old 11-02-2008, 08:58 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by card21doc View Post
The government has committed 25 billion dollars to help the "Big 3." At this point they are not willing to finance the GM-Chrysler merger.
This money is to help fund research and development to meet the new CAFE requirements, which are particularly costly for the big 3 to meet. Of course, these standards won't apply to manufacturer's like Porsche/Ferrari so once again the government is giving a pass to the foreign competition and crippling the domestic's.
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