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city in that mode. you are seeing the evolution here and you can see where it's going over time. the more creative we are and the greater energy density that we can get into a cell battery, the better off we're going to be. we are investing. this is the new gm. we put $100 million into gm ventures. it sounds like a private equity firm. we don't have all of the answers. you have the entrepreneurs with their life and soul and their grandmother's inheritance. they invest everything and they live and die with that. i like that intensity. we get the opportunity to kind of walk around the ...

we had to go through some difficult times. and there's been a lot of political dialogue on that to and froe, anti-and pro. where we are, we are at the two year hiatus, general motors is the largest auto manufacturer in the world. as i said, we had the most profitable year. between '10 and '11 alone, we grew revenue $15 billion. that will put us in the fortune 250. so our revenue today is about $150 billion which would be larger than the gross national product of 100 countries in the world. so it is a huge, i think, it's an american company. it's a global company in the sense that we ...

i think people have this visual that people are reading e-mails. some guy -- a guy named bob in cleveland is reading everybody's e-mail to find this malicious software. not how it works. as a matter of fact, if that's how it works it's a miserable failure. can you talk about how you envision how will that will work with the sharing, realtime, no regulatory? >> i'd be happy. i want to compliment you on the legislation. first of all, realtime absolutely. independently auditable i think is important. so that somebody can come in and look at the way this is done, but it also has to be co...

or a stop light. you have the 12-volt battery that runs the radio and everything else. we go to a string of lithium batteries in the trunk and your mileage jumps from 25 to 33%. it is cleaner and you are in the city in that mode. you are seeing the evolution here and you can see where it's going over time. the more creative we are and the greater energy density that we can get into a cell battery, the better off we're going to be. we are investing. this is the new gm. we put $100 million into gm ventures. it sounds like a private equity firm. we don't have all of the answers. you hav...

And you end up losing the game. >> and if you look at sort of where the stock price is and the american public recouping its investment, it's rosier, more of a bullish picture than a bearish. >> i don't see -- where are the protests? all this profit they're making, there's way too much profit being made here. this is bad for the country. we need to stop this. >> well, michael steele is not giving the occupy -- >> oh, my gosh, where are the protesters? way too much profit! >> if dan ackerson were taking in $100 million in options and bonuses, as a result of that $8 billion in profit, i think we...