american products abroad on a level playing field. we d like to see tax reform. we d like to see taxes lower in a simplified code. we think that would good for the country. and we d like to see regulatory certainty. in our business there s a long lead time to be able to react to those things. manager after manager has come in here and said that the epa rules have actually become quite onerous and are getting in the way of growth. obviously, you know, we spend a lot of time with the epa and nitsa, the other regulatory body. we ve agreed on the one national standard which is a fuel economy level for our fleet by the year 2025. and as part of that a very important midterm review we re going to have in 2018. because to meet those fuel economy requirements we have to have a much greater percentage of electrifyiedyied vehicles being bought by customers and that we sell. so we want to have that midterm review because what we re seeing is with the current cost of a gallon of gas, we re not
they do plan to do. takata thinks the best way forward is not a nationwide recall, but to focus its resources on where they think there are most needed, and that is in the humid states. places like hawaii, florida, burt rico where there have been instances of exploding air bags. and trying to approach the problems there. that hasn t played out at all with nitsa, the national highway safety authority. there are lines from each side. this is from takata who says we will take all actions needed to advance the goal of safety for the driving public. this is in response to that say ing we blooe anything short of a
nitsa needs to set up a hotline, let general motors people send in what they know, check out the documentation and take care of it. i know i m lying, people are saying they won t buy general motors cars any more. that s not tans. general motors has to be fixed because if you re driving a nongeneral motors car on the road and there are general motors cars around you, you re in the ball game. my thanks to bill mcaleer. we reached out to general motors for a comment on our exclusive skbrir with william mcaleer. if mcaleer s concerns were submitted by an employee today, they would be thoroughly investigated within the safety organization, however that is not to imply that in this particular case, his issues weren t. this company has not had such time to analyze this particular case. this individually ti investigated his case and lost. while it s important to take
we ve taken care of it now and we put some real steps in place that it won t happen been but that simply isn t true. do you believe there are still gm cars on the road today, the time period where you ran the corporate quality unit that pose a risk of catastrophic injury? yes. i think the answer to this is for nitsa to set up a thing where general motors has knowledge of this where they can contact them anonymously and tell them what they know. there are people in the corporation who are too scared to talk, have tried to talk and been beaten down and who know all the details that need to be known. and as muches miss barra might want to get people to phone that to her i don t think they will do it. i don t think the atmosphere is conducive to that.
give the truth, the whole truth. nitsa said gm did not share key information. if we had any of pieces of information,ability it would have changed the way we approached this. it angers me we had a situation that took over a decade to correct. i worked there, i was in a high position, but i didn t know what was going on. barra now she s hired ken feinberg who helped the 9/11, gulf oil, and boston marathon bombing families to compensate gm victims. today we hear more about money. a piece that cost pennies. reporter: a 57 cent part that could have cost gm $100 million to fix in 2007 now costing the company and families so much more. reporter: so far this year gm has recalled 6 million vehicles. a couple of different recalls there. it looks like the company is saying, francis, it s going take