To be honest, I’m a little torn about the idea.
One part of me, like that movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?” thinks, “When [Toyota and other companies] started shifting their focus to more efficient cars, you fuckers were seeing who could make the biggest gas-guzzling penis compensator!”
I also think of Ashton Kutcher’s idea (yes, him, of all people) when he was on last week’s Bill Maher, “You know who should bail them out? The oil companies. The bottom line is, if you really look at it, the reason for their companies’ decline is their allegiance to the oil companies….”
Obviously, on that principle—that of company responsibility, I don’t agree with it.
But, of course, there are greater implications of what not bailing out would do—the loss of jobs, the further decline of the (economic) morale not only domestically, but globally as well, etc, etc.
It seems like it’s one of those “you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”