Governor tells auto industry: "get off your butt"

Governor Schwarzenegger has been getting heavy media attention recently, including getting his picture on the cover of Newsweek, said that Michigan’s carmakers should get off their “butt” on greenhouse gases. During his presentation as featured speaker for a Global Environmental Leadership Conference at Georgetown University the Governor said:

I say, Arnold to Michigan: get off your butt and join us. California may be doing more to save U.S. automakers than anyone else. We are pushing them to make changes. If they don’t change someone else will. Only technology will ultimately save Detroit, If they don’t change, someone else will, the Japanese will, the Chinese will, the South Koreans will. In California, we are doing everything we can to tip the balance in favor of the environment, California is big. California is powerful, and what we do in California has an impact. We are sending the world a message.