Rick Haglund of MLive.com has
an excellent idea: Al Gore should put in a bid to buy the Chrysler Group from DaimlerChrysler.
As Haglund notes, Gore is the chairman of Generation Management LLC, "a private equity firm whose managing partner is former Goldman Sachs executive David Blood," so he has access to the money and expertise.
Why not go for it?
Haglund writes:
It's time for [Gore] to stop relying on the bully pulpit and the big screen, and put some skin in the game. He should buy Chrysler, which parent DaimlerChrysler put up for sale in February, and make it the greenest automaker on the planet.
Dump Chrysler's gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines altogether and replace them with fuel cells, electric motors and engines that run on biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel.
Such a move by Gore would demonstrate, writes Haglund, "that we can eliminate the internal combustion engine over the next couple of decades."
Gore can easily access the dough from all kinds of rich environmentalists, so why not take the leap and show how it can be done?