Lee Ioaccoca now convinced global warming is real, and a threat to sustainability of the planet:
"He also talks of the need to break the nation's dependence on oil and counteract climate change.
"I never thought I’d pay eight bucks to watch a power point presentation by Al Gore," he says, referring to An Inconvenient Truth, and he admits that he didn't support Gore's presidential bid because he thought he was "a little nuts" on global warming.
Iacocca's position today ("Why we don't want to accept that we're heating up the earth bewilders me") is almost a Damascene conversion for a man who spent his working life largely in the service of the gas-guzzler.
But as with joy increased over one sinner who repents, those who fret over the future of an oil-based U.S. auto industry will find it refreshing to hear a presence such as Iacocca now talk with such seemingly genuine commitment about alternative fuels.
Especially on the day that Ford appointed its first-ever senior vice president for "sustainability."
Where Have All The Leaders Gone? (Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney) is published by Scribner/Simon and Schuster, $25.
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