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Obama Insists Cars Improve Fuel Efficiency by 40%

Since when does government tell auto manufactures what to build? It is up to the public to decide what they want. Sure, autos can be built that get 40 or mpg and due to their light weight, become death traps when involved in a collision at 40or 50 mph. Be assured, whenever this socialist mandate goes thru, gasoline will be back to 4 to 6 bucks a gallon.This so called going green is getting me down..global warming? B.S. The hottest recorded temperature in the U.S. was in the 30s. More socialist pap. There is still plenty of oil around. If it were not so, oil would still be in the 100s. It boils down to supply and demand. The next four years will reveal just how far left we will travel.

Does the Auto Industry Deserve To Be Bailed Out?

many years ago, I worked on the frame line at a G.M. plant. It was tough work. As I see it, chapter ll is the only viable alternative for g.m. and possibly the others. Yes, it will hurt for awhile. Unemployment will be staggering for awhile..however, when the reorganization takes place, the industry will pick up again. Lookat Safeway, or Continental Airlines to name a few that went belly up. We have the capability to make fine autos in the U.S. Easing credit will be the first start for those that are qualified buyers. Cutting the wages and benefits brought on by the unions should help a great deal. Better a cut in wages than no job at all.

Big Three: Too Connected to Fail?

Any business has the right to prosper. Any business has the right to fail. This should not be contingent upon we taxpayers to bail industries out due to bad decisions on their part. Let the big three go bankrupt. Let them reorganize. Perhaps then they will sell to the public what they want, and not what they foist upon us. Good autos manufactured years ago could not cut it, such as Packard, Studebaker, Desoto, Kaiser Frazier, Nash, Crosley, Pierce Arrow to name a few. Build a better car and we will buy it. Banks also have a responsibility to make loans to QUALIFIED buyers. No bail out!

Ben Stein Watch: November 8, 2008

Auto companies fail due to poor decisions period. Build a better auto and they will be sold, period. Let me see now, whatever happened to auto makers such as Pierce Arrow, Studebaker, Hudson, Crosley, Kaiser, Frazier,Desoto, Cord, Packard, Nash, Whippet, Maxwell Terreplane, Plymouth,Tucker etc.? Quality and price sell cars. We finally learned about quality from Japan and have begun to show it in some of our autos. Oh yeah, remember the Pinto and Corvair? Bad decisions. Shape up American manufactures before we start importing and not manufacturing cars here!