GM CEO Rick Wagoner - Fuel Economy and the Auto Industry

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/01/Rick_Wagoner_Can_General_Motors_Really_Be_Green_Motors

Former General Motors Chairman and CEO discusses the effects national and state fuel economy standards are having on the automobile industry.

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General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner speaks at an event hosted by The Commonwealth Club of California titled Can GM Really Be Green Motors?

General Motors will bring 16 new hybrids to market in the next few years, including a futuristic plug-in. Has the world's largest car maker turned the corner on climate change?

The Detroit automaker still doesn't like some of California's environmental laws, but it now recognizes that climate change is a real problem to be solved. The answer, Wagoner says, is to diversify fuel sources to include ethanol, hybrids and one day even hydrogen - The Commonwealth Club of California

G. Richard Wagoner Jr. has been Chairman of General Motors Corp., since May 1, 2003 and its Chief Executive Officer since June 1, 2000. Mr. Wagoner serves as Chief Executive Officer of General Motors North America. He joined General Motors Corporation in 1977.
Mr. Wagoner served as President of North American Operations of General Motors Corp. from April 2005 to July 1, 2006. Mr. Wagoner served as President of General Motors Corp., from 1998 to 2003, as Chief Operating Officer from 1998 to 2000 and as Executive Vice President and President GM's North American Operations from 1994 to 1998 and executive vice president and chief financial officer from 1992 to 1994 and also had responsibility for worldwide purchasing from 1993 to 1994. Mr. Wagoner was president and Managing Director of General Motors do Brasil (GMB) in 1991 and 1992. Prior to that, he was Vice President in charge of finance for General Motors Europe based in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989 and 1990.

Mr. Wagoner began his GM career as an analyst in the Treasurer's Office in New York in 1977. After several promotions there, in 1981 he became treasurer of GMB in Sao Paulo. In 1984, he became Executive Director of finance for GMB. He moved to GM of Canada Limited in 1987 as Vice President and finance manager. In October 1988, he became group director, strategic business planning, for the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group. He has been a Director of General Motors Corp., since 1998 and serves as a Director of General Motors Acceptance Corp. of Canada Ltd.

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[loadi2]

rick wagoner you sure is a dum f-cker, you sure did not deserve no bonus for stupidity

[wodanowitz]

Go and FUCK YOU Rick!!! You stupid ASSHOLE killed the Hummer H1 and you are killing OPEL, so fuck you!

[nickchirco]

@rasaxSF gm needs to quit taking the governments advice

[nickchirco]

@loadi2 you first

[nickchirco]

@loadi2 how would it feel to have a hummer drive over your dumbass?

[nickchirco]

@Alfrunk obama is a socialist trying to take over all private industries starting with the the automakers, obama can burn in hell for all i care!!!

[nickchirco]

@emforty2 the false advertising of global warming caused people to buy smaller cars

[nickchirco]

@emforty2 your the idiot, because you bastards are the ones trying to kill the larger safer suvs and make everyone drive puny little pieces of shit!

[liveoilfree]

GM WAS CONTROLLED BY FUNDS WHICH HAD MUCH LARGER INVESTMENTS IN BIG OIL COMPANIES. So they didn't really care if their piddling money in GM went busto, so long as it didn't hurt Big Oil. That's why GM was "stupid" enough to kill the EV1, and sell the NiMH batteries to Chevron.

[liveoilfree]

HAW HAW what a LAUGHINGSTOCK this turd Waggoner is!! Broke the once-greatest industrial firm, due to his INCOMPETENCY, and his arrogance is only exceeded by his NINCOMPOOPSY!!

[chicagoelectricbicyc]

Rick wagoner is living proof Harvard Business School does not mean anything. He wrecked GM.

[pdogger1]

LOL idiots on the board voted to give this moron 30 million bucks a year as he drove the share price into the gutter. Stockholders and America get just what they deserve.