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Home › Money

Liz Smith | 02/04/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith Admits Her Darkside – Sort Of

By Liz Smith RSS
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In response to: If someone gave you $40,000 to buy an automobile, would you buy one made in America?
Liz Smith

If someone gave me $40,000 to buy an automobile, I would investigate to see if there are U.S.-made models now getting good mileage. Then I’d probably end up with a BMW convertible. (I am not a good person all the time!)

Click here on this text to read my New York Post column.

Read more about: American Cars, Auto Industry, Automakers, BMW, Business, Detroit

8 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

James the Game
There are more American-made cars with 30+ fuel efficiency than from any other nation, Liz. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090202/AUTO01/902020…
By James the Game on 02/05/2009 1:18 am
Linda Mason
Hi James — is that you in front of your open refridgerator door? Yes, you tell her! Does she read the papers? I haven’t owned a car for 10+ years, use public transit, cabs and my feet, and I know when I am ready to buy my next car, it will be an American-made car!
By Linda Mason on 02/05/2009 8:30 pm
James the Game
Yes, that’s me, Linda
By James the Game on 02/06/2009 3:59 am
Kay Sara
Liz, BMWs are made in Alabama.
By Kay Sara on 02/05/2009 7:44 am
Liz Smith
Dear Kay … now I feel a hell of a lot better. thanks for your comment. Seriously I will buy American when Detroit gets its act together and I believe it will. And , James, your info is encouraging. Why oh why did the U.S. drag its feet so long in its love of foreign oil and why oh why did everybody resist going green in even the slightest way? Oh yes, and I am walking a lot these days. Liz
By Liz Smith on 02/05/2009 2:11 pm
sibelle daubigne
Liz, LOL you still are my #1 ! Like you, i walk a lot! What else is better for your health?
By sibelle daubigne on 02/05/2009 3:57 pm
Linda Mason
Hi Liz— Now there you go again, blaming the US’s love of “foreign oil” and “everybody [else] resisting going green?” I’m sure your BMW gets great gas mileage, but “me thinks thou doest protest too much!” You could trade that BMW in for an American model (made by American workers) that will get you excellent mileage. It won’t have the cache of a BMW, but let that be your personal sacrifice.
By Linda Mason on 02/05/2009 8:38 pm
James the Game
Liz, the answer can be summed up in one word: greed. As long as the loot was rolling in, Big Oil saw no reason to put the infrastructure (read: pumps) in place to accommodate alternative fuels, which it had the technology to do 20 years ago on a mass scale. The auto industry simply manufactured what people wanted: gas-guzzlers. The Detroit Three were caught with their pants down when the Arabs artificially raised the price of oil, and Americans could no longer afford to put half a week’s salary into Betsy.
By James the Game on 02/06/2009 3:58 am