A Man in Full!!!...............

.... Nah, I ain't talkin' about Thomas Wolfe's hero in the book by that name.... I'm talkin' about the General Motors Vice President,, Bob Lutz. He stood up on his hind legs a week or so ago and said that "global warming is a crock of sh*t'! Naturally, all the main stream media, tree huggin' bloggers, green organizations, and indignant environmental snobs came swinging down from their chalet's in the mountain ski ranges and started beatin' on his head. Unlike most modern weak-kneed business exec, he didn't fold and offer a mea culpa. And much to General Motors credit, they didn't fire or suspend him to 'get his head right'! Here's part of how Reuters reported it;

GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock"

Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:08pm EST

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks

he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.

Lutz, GM's outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.

In a posting on his GM blog on Thursday, Lutz said those "spewing virtual vitriol" at him for minimizing the threat of climate change were "missing the big picture."

"What they should be doing in earnest is forming opinions, not about me but about GM and what this company is doing that is ... hugely beneficial to the causes they so enthusiastically claim to support," he said in a posting titled, "Talk About a Crock."

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A 40-year auto industry veteran who joined GM earlier in the decade with a mandate to shake up its vehicle line-up, Lutz is no stranger to controversy.

As part of a campaign against higher fuel economy standards, Lutz wrote in a 2006 blog posting that forcing automakers to sell smaller cars would be "like trying to address the obesity problem in this country by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell smaller, tighter sizes." [....]

Good on him and a pat on the back to the GM CEO for standing by their words. (for the full article - go to: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22372976.htm