This one made USA Today’s Week in Cartoons roundup Thursday, July 2. As the country’s #1 paper in circulation, that’s always a good place to be.
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That Fiat acronym is one of my favorites. This got the usual angry mail that Big 3 quality gaps are a myth. But if so, why are Japanese/German resale values so much higher?
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A chance to caricature past presidents. Ol’ Teddy Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter would have been a treat.
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The bizarre story of Gov. Sanford and his Argentina story consumes the national news and provides endless fodder for us politoonists. At least until the even more bizarre Michael Jackson passes on.
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Steve Yzerman - one of the more peculiar names in sports - is accepted to hockey’s hall of fame. Note the building architecture. Located in Canada, the hockey HOF looks a lot different than, say, Canton, Ohio’s football HOF.
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Detroit, Mich. - In addition to Ford and Nissan, the Department of Energy also doled out $465 million in federal loans this week to Tesla, a Silicon Valley-based maker of electric cars for the rich. Taxpayers should find this Tesla investment offensive for a number of reasons.
CAFE COMPLIANCE? The $25 billion DOE program was originally designed to help automakers meet Congress’s absurd 35-mpg-by-2015 fuel-efficiency mandates, a federal intrusion that is estimated to cost the industry $85 billion. As a start-up automaker producing only niche electric vehicles, CAFE laws are of little concern to Tesla. . . .
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So while the Treasury spends billions to save GM and Chrysler, the Energy Dept. gives billions to one of their chief competitors, Nissan? Your tax dollars at work.
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“This announcement puts Tennessee at the center of building electric cars in America. We can electrify half our cars and trucks if we plug them in at night, without building one new power plant because of all the unused nighttime electricity we have. This is the single best way to reduce dependence on foreign oil, clean the air, and keep the cost of fuel low.”
Former Tennessee senator and global-warming guru Al Gore?
No, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, backed by GOP colleague Bob Corker praising the Department of Energy’s distribution of $1.6 billion to Nissan to make global warming-fighting electric cars and bring an alleged 1,300 jobs to Tennessee. . . .
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. . . Well, it’s no less absurd than the other alternative fuels they’re talking about these days.
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Detroit, Mich. - If they are reading today’s auto news, Americans must think Washington has gone stark raving mad.
With the Obama Treasury Department in the midst of committing a combined $57 billion in taxpayer money to General Motors and Chrysler to save the U.S. auto industry and advance Detroit’s investment in alternative-technology vehicles, the same administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) just gave $1.6 billion in loans for developing electric cars to . . . Nissan.
Washington is at war with itself - the inevitable result of getting too deeply involved in the U.S. auto market while trying to save the planet and Detroit automakers at the same time. And the farther that D.C. goes down the rabbit hole, the weirder things become. . . .
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Henry Payne is the editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News.
A writer as well as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, he produces five local cartoons a week, draws a weekly column called "Payne & Ink," a weekly auto cartoon for Autos Insider, and contributes occasional articles to the op-ed section.
Payne also produces six cartoons a week on national issues for United Feature Syndicate in New York which distributes his work to an additional 60 clients worldwide. His work has been reprinted in The New York Times, USA Today, and National Review.
As a writer, Payne is a regular contributor to National Review on economic, political and environmental issues, and his articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard magazine, Reason, and other publications.
This variety of work is all compiled here on his News blog page, as well as anything else that may be on his mind.
Payne came to The News in 1999 from Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, DC. He has published three books, including two children's books for Random House. Born in West Virginia in1962, Payne is a graduate of Princeton University. He is an active race car driver, and lives with wife and two children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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