Someone Forgot to Tell Bill Ford
When Dick Cheney had all the big oil honchos in to divide up the spoils of energy policy, someone forgot to tell William Clay Ford, the family scion, CEO and largest private shareholder of Ford Motor Company.
Following a speech at the National Press Club yesterday, Ford expected to meet with White House neocon econs, including a guy by the name of Allan Hubbard, the White House adviser on economic policy. Can you believe they actually have an advisor? An actual policy? Anyway, Bill wants to plan a summit on energy issues that he said the White House has agreed to hold.
I don’t know how to break this to you, Bill, but Dick Cheney already had that meeting three years or so ago and apparently your invitation got lost in the mail. Dick was meeting with the other end of the snake, the oil production end and somehow he must have lost all sight of you consumer-related guys. He knew you were getting your collective asses kicked by Japan again, but it just seemed like such old news. Cripes, Dick…