A Car Czar? What? Are they kidding? Pfffttt!! Industry people barely know how to run the car business. How is a civil servant or political appointee going to direct a bunch of cocky rust belt stiffs in pinstripe suits to drive us into a clean and happy motorized future? Is this a joke? HEY!! Who’s idea is this?
The big three automotive companies need a blood purge. The executives who lead these venerable organizations onto this jeep trail to perdition need to have their heads skewered on a row of pikes planted outside corporate HQ for all to see. There must be a big show of public firings and some tearful, sobbing contrition by the survivors. People who become automobile executives captains of industry should be terrified every day they show up to work, fearing for their careers. If you get too relaxed, You’re Out! Damn’d skippy.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
You often rant about the inequitable and unjustified distribution of wealth. But the reality is that this is a intended state.
Below link by Chris Hedges, is one of the finest I’ve ever read.
http://tinyurl.com/6c3fbx
I agree. It pretty much hits the spot. Thanks for posting the link.
Truthdig is worth visiting as well.
http://www.truthdig.com/
Barbarians are about product not process, wielded by indivduals. Effete dying nations are about process not product, wielded by central management. When a soldier trying trying to read a super-twist nematic LCD display is beaned by a native with a wooden club, who has the better weapon?
Detroit told W. Edwards Deming to go to Hell. Deming went to Japan and brought Hell back with him. Detroit is no more about cars than NASA is about space or the Department of Education is about being taught. Management assumes insubordinate subordinates will take up the slack locally. Woe unto any Board Room underpinned by nothing but loyal sycophants.
Google is a magnificent distortion of intellectual fury. Accumulate and loose the best brains, pick and choose what golden nuggets appear, call the dross cost of production. 21st century America cares whether animals raised for slaughter are happy in the interim. Slaughtered farmers won’t get you quality cheap chickens.