Lutz

General Motor’s chief climate denier (he prefers skeptic) is finally on his way out the door.

GM just announced that it is retiring Bob Lutz as vice chairman for global product development. He’ll be replaced on April 1 and fully retired at the end of the year – if GM lasts that long.

We hope Lutz is the last of that model to emerge from Detroit. Last year, we called for his resignation as a condition of the Big Three bailout.

As a matter of immediate concern, I think the U.S. legislators contemplating this bailout package should demand Bob Lutz's resignation before dribbling a single dollar into GM's leaky pockets.

Jim Hoggan, DeSmogBlog, 12-6-08

If everybody in America doesn't know who Bob Lutz is, they should. He's GM's denier-in-chief. Nicknamed "Maximum Bob" for being the champion of cars like the Dodge V-10 Viper and the 1,000 horsepower Cadillac Sixteen, he also gained notoriety for calling global warming a "crock of (expletive deleted)." Now, he's out front for GM as the booster for the Chevy Volt, the electric car on which the company is staking its turnaround. Good grief.