Where's Michael Moore when you need him?
General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars, and he's confident the government will soon shed its remaining 26 percent stake in the once-bankrupt automaker.
"I actually think the government will be out this year — within the next 12 months, hopefully within the next six months," Akerson said in a two-hour interview with The Detroit News last week.
He is grateful for the government's rescue of GM — "I have nothing but good things to say about them" — but Akerson said the time for that relationship to end is coming because it's wearing on GM.
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A government-imposed tax hike, Akerson believes, will prompt more people to buy small cars and do more good for the environment than forcing automakers to comply with higher gas-mileage standards.
We've come to expect this kind of crap from the political class, but we have to take from an auto manufacturer? Of course, he's a car maker in bed with the government who is grateful for the "rescue" and has "nothing but good things to say about them." Use your taxing power to force us to make the cars nobody wants to drive! Crony capitalist ratfink punk.
