Detriot

Reason TV Takes on Detroit's Train to Nowhere

1:14 PM, Oct 14, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

While we're talking about Detroit, read Matt Labash's piece, "The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep: Detroit is dying. But, it is not dead yet."

The Detroit Auto Show

The Detroit Auto Show

Eggs, toasters, and Washington green.

2:14 PM, Jan 26, 2010 • By HENRY PAYNE

Detroit 

The auto industry makes America’s most regulated consumer product. So the annual North American International Auto Show here has always been a nervous intersection between public and private, between green and sexy, between what Washington wants and what the public wants. 

But now that Washington is part-owner of two automakers, heavily subsidizes the purchase of alternative-fuel cars, and dictates that by 2015 vehicles get 40 percent better gas mileage to fight global warming, the intersection belonged to government at this January’s show. 

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