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* USA - Mileage proposal unfair, GM exec says
Detroit,Mich, USA -Los Angeles Times (LA,CAL)/Reuters -Dec 27, 2006: -- A proposal to increase the U.S. fuel economy standards would force Detroit-based automakers to "hand over" the market for trucks and sport utility vehicles to Japanese manufacturers, a senior General Motors Corp. executive said. Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman and the head of the company's global product development team, said the proposed changes to the government's so-called corporate average fuel economy standards would represent an unfair burden on the traditional Big Three automakers. "For one thing, it puts us, the domestic manufacturers, at odds with the desires of most of our customers, namely larger vehicles," Lutz said in a year-end posting on a website maintained by GM... The Energy Security Leadership Council, a group that includes more than a dozen prominent U.S. executives and retired military officers, issued a report this month calling on Congress to take steps to reduce the reliance on imported oil. The group called for tougher regulation, including a 4% annual increase in fuel economy standards...
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