Romney mocked the products of the "Big Three" automakers as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" and became one of the first high-profile, media-savvy business executives. Devoutly religious, he presided over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Having entered politics by participating in a state ...
Jan 17, 2012 ... In my first weekly online column for Rolling Stone, I'm here to write about another loser and son: George and Mitt Romney – both almost-certain Republican ... As CEO of the Americans Motors Corporation, he had single-handedly set Detroit on its ear by calling its products "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." The first ...
Aug 15, 2012 ... He demanded fuel efficiency. According to Kranish and Helman, Romney turned around American Motors producing "a fuel-efficient car, predicting that Americans would choose it over the 'gas-guzzling dinosaurs' produced by larger automakers." He raised taxes. Elected three times, Kranish and Helman ...
May 30, 2017 ... International competitiveness is one reason the auto industry was an advocate for the standards before it was against them. For the last couple of years, ... Rolling back standards, stalling innovation and encouraging production of gas-guzzling dinosaurs are not winning strategies. David Richardson is ...
May 9, 2012 ... AMC wasn't one of the Big Three, of course, and Romney sold the company's compact Rambler on the strength of truculent speeches and ads that ridiculed the Big Three's cars as “gas-guzzling dinosaurs.” He lampooned “cars nineteen feet long, weighing two tons…used to run a 118-pound housewife ...
(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs.