CO2: All the money in the world couldn't help Chrysler

Chrysler: Impossible to cut CO2 emissions by 30 percent

"I seriously doubt that if you gave me all the money in the world and the same for all the other automakers that they could find enough resources ... to do this work," Bob Lee, a vice president at DaimlerChrysler, testified in April. (Reuters via Yahoo)

Despite the fact that today's hybrid cars already achieve this ends, Chrysler could not meet this goal with "all the money in the world"? How can Chrysler be believed when it's so obvious they are lying? Is it too expensive to meet these reductions? That's debatable. Impossible, however, that's pure nonsense. Besides, even if global warming isn't real, meeting this requirement, which would probably require extensive use of hybrid technology, would also have the unintended consequence of ending foreign oil dependency.

How much would that be worth?