Auto team drives imports: Fed task force has few new U.S. cars

[Chris]

Auto team drives imports
Fed task force has few new U.S. cars

WASHINGTON -- The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars.

Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.

The Detroit News reviewed public records to discover what many of the task force and staff members drove, but information was not available on all of the officials, and records for some states were not complete.

At least two task force members don't own a car, and there are still two open slots on the 10-member panel that will be filled by the secretaries of labor and commerce, who have not yet been appointed.

The co-chairs of the task force -- Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers -- both own foreign automobiles.

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I wonder what these economic geniuses will suggest to the auto companies.  The article includes an interesting breakdown of what the Obama administration owns and drives.

[JohnnyReb]

You can have a FORD yugo, a GM Yugo or Chysler Yugo.....in any color as long as it's black.

[Chris]

You can have a FORD yugo, a GM Yugo or Chysler Yugo.....in any color as long as it's black.

If Congress gets into the car-designing business, they better include one with handles on the outside so you can push it.

[rich_t]

If Congress gets into the car-designing business, they better include one with handles on the outside so you can push it.

What do you mean if???

They have been dictating for decades.  What do you think fuel milage legislation is all about?