Neolibs get stupider witth Big Three gravy train

Here's the latest stupidity, courtesy of Washington Monthly and author Jeffrey Leonard?

Give every American a 50 percent rebate off any made-in-America car if the carmaker sufficiently restructures.

First, Leonard says any American-made car.

Good, gimme 50 percent off a Honda from Marysville, Ohio. Or, if I am allowed to hold off a year or two, an American-made Prius. Honda and Toyota are already sufficiently restructured.

Leonard is full of crap otherwise, especially when he claims to have "addressed the concern" of bribing America to buy Detroit's anti-environmental, gas-guzzling crap:

[O]ur automakers aren’t as bad as you think. If you go to Europe or especially China and Asia, you will see excellent small cars produced by Ford and Chevrolet that sell very well. You won’t see them in the United States, however, because these are not the cars American have been buying. Like it or not, a major reason that American automakers have built the cars that they’ve built for the domestic market is that they’ve had to contend with highly misleading long-term market signals based on cheap gas.

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, Jeffrey Leonard

The Big Three have KNOWN Peak Oil is coming down the pike; yet, they bought off John Dingell and other hacks to FIGHT CAFE increases. They have CAUSED the market to go askew and fought the future.