Or so says this WSJ article.

When is $25 billion in taxpayer cash insufficient to bail out
Detroit’s auto makers? Answer: When the money is a tool of
Congressional industrial policy to turn GM, Ford and Chrysler into
agents of the Sierra Club and other green lobbies.

That’s
the little-understood subplot of the Washington melodrama over a
taxpayer rescue for Detroit. In their public statements, proponents
describe the bailout as an attempt to save jobs, American manufacturing
and the middle-class way of life. But look closely and you can see that
what’s really going on is an attempt to use taxpayer money to remake
Detroit in the image of the modern environmental movement. Given a
choice between greens and blue-collar workers, Congress puts the greens
first.

[Review & Outlook]AP

Ford CEO Alan Mulally, Chrysler
CEO Robert Nardelli, and GM CEO Rick Wagoner at a Senate hearing on the
state of the auto industry on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008.