Not Giving the President’s Plan a chance to Work!
Posted on | April 9, 2007
Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally stopped President Bush from plugging an electrical power line into the fuel tank of Ford’s prototype hydrogen-electric hybrid car.
Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.
“I just thought, ‘Oh my goodness!’ So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front,” Mulally said. “I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen. This is all off the record, right?”
Typical defeatist attitude—the Administration’s intelligence estimates suggested that the hydrogen would have greeted the electricity as a liberator!
UPDATE 4/12/07: I’m told that Mulally has since identified the above story as a joke he told reporters, and that the video record proves that the event never really happened. It is a pity to lose this anecdote!
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