Paul Killinger

Ford: Federal Loan Package Doesn't Entice Kerkorian To Stick Around

Brian,

I'm on your side here buddy, but to equate the importance of GM and Ford to our national defense is stretching it. First off, we already outsource major parts of vehicle manufacture to other countries, and we have domestic vehicle manufacturing capacity mothballed everywhere.

As for cutting back on imported oil, I'm right with you. So why doesn't Detroit begin building NGV's again, like they do in numerous foreign countries? You can buy 19 different NGV models made by GM and Ford in Canada, and GM will convert new cars they've already sold to operate on this fuel FOR FREE in Germany.

The market helps those who help themselves, which is a lesson Detroit has apparently failed to learn yet. Now that gasoline is headed back toward $2/gallon, what are they doing? Why advertising Hummers and introducing big new SUV's, of course.

They're not even ridiculous, just increasingly pathetic. You could give them all the money in the Treasury, and that would only postpone the inevitable. What they REALLY need to do is fire their executives and dismantle their unions.

When you all begin to see the logic and common sense in such ideas, Detroit will have a new opportunity to arise from its ashes.