With auto sales in their worst slump since 1958, it hardly seemed appropriate for anyone let alone an auto executive to favor proposals that would make driving more expensive. Yet that is what Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II is doing. He wants a 100-per-gal. hike in federal gasoline taxes, with the resulting $11 billion raised annually going to assist the poor and unemployed.
"This country's in a recession and we're in trouble," Ford said last week after chairing a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club. "The leadership in Washington has got to take some substantive stands."
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