DETROIT RIDES ALONE

摘要

Detroit's auto makers are suddenly getting the cold shoul-der from Washington. After years of helping the Big Three beat back stricter fuel economy regulations, their friends on the Hill are abandoning them. Fearful that continued opposition to higher standards will tar them as anti-environment and could cost them control of the House in 2002, many of the industry's GOP backers are dramatically backpedaling, pressing the industry hard to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles.