Green Car Bailout
Detroit’s big car makers want $25 billion in taxpayer loans to help them retool to build cleaner cars. But will the money really go toward making cars go farther on a gallon of gas? Living on Earth’s Jeff Young questions GM’s top executive to find out.
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