Disclosure Harrison joins task force Opinion Paris is burning s.f. You'd think the auto industry would be hurting. Constant gridlock grips the highways.
Gasoline prices fluctuate between high and really high.
Ford and Firestone are emerging from the tire fiasco looking more and more like a pair of corporate serial killers with a double-digit body count. Then there's the cataclysmic little matter, partially car-caused, of the earth's rising temperature. Detroit is selling bigger, stupider, more earth-defiling vehicles in record numbers. A century after its birth, the car has become the Terminator of technologies, a superkiller impervious to any attack. On the margins, though, the auto's foes stand undeterred.