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Could It Be a Happy New Year for Chrysler?

Dave your Landcruser might get 30 down hill with a tailwind.
Last time I checked it did not come from Europe either.
I am talking about full size cars. Not a VW diesel that weighs 2200 pounds and holds 3 people uncomfortably.
Let's compare apples to apples shall we.
Besides, my point was about people like you that don't buy Detroit's better offerings. Just keep sending your money and our jobs overseas and I'll meet you in the bread line.

I also made comment a year ago asking the question..."Why can you only get a CNG vehicle on the west coast". I know there are very few places to get the fuel in the other regions of the country but anyone with NG in there home can put their own fuel station there for a few thousand dollars and the payback is not very long in coming. The range exceeds the proposed plugins, so unless you are traveling cross country that is not an issue. It could be a good bridge to new technology.
I'm sure it would make Dave happy too since as it stands today the only CNG cars you can buy are foreign. Detroit has really dropped the ball in this respect.

Could It Be a Happy New Year for Chrysler?

Since the 80's GM has made a fuel efficient large cars. The Buick LaSabre (followed by the LaCross and Lucerne) and Chevy Impala got 30+ MPG and had good crash and quality ratings. Yet Americans choose to buy from foreign manufactures.
Let's not put all the blame on Detroit.
Also devich, is it not better to make just $1.00 a day, continue to pay your workers and suppliers, than to lose $10,000,000 a day?
Let's get going in the right direction, support Detroit IF they follow through with promised changes, and let the stockholders worry about big profits a couple of years from now.

Is Oil a Bubble? Part One

Since anyone that has a natural gas line could install a LNG unit at their home for a couple of G's and use that cheaper alternative, why is it cars with that technology are only available for purchase on the west coast? In time like these every little bit we do to conserve can help while we wait for the distibution system to catch up to newer technology. I understand natural gas too is a fuel that will some day be used up but until then it helps to take the pressure off oil dependence.

Is Oil a Bubble? Part One

Sophisse: there is a better fuel in the works and it is just a few years away not 20 years. Hydrogen fuel cells. UTX, GE and many others have working models on buses now.