I say let them fail. After all these years they finally decide to make something viable and fuel efficient?! Give me a freaking break…those 3 never did anything green and instead made gas guzzlers that make America depend on foreign oil. Do we really need cars with V8 in every model…
You are a total idiot, GM, Ford, and Chrysler for the decades they have been around have built what people WANTED. During the muscle car era, they built muscle cars. In the times of cheap gas everybody(not me) wanted a damn big gas guzzling SUV. I admit, they should have had more gas sippers on the sidelines waiting for doomsday(4 dollar gas) But they were catering to most American WANTS and needs. Who thought gas would skyrocket overnight like it did. MOST of us on this blog were guilty for jumping on that same bandwagon, buying what we WANTED, even if it was a gas guzzler . Enter the Chevy Volt concept, everybody piles onto the bandwagon because, wow gas costs so much, boo hoo.
I support the Chevy Volt because it is an American idea. American car manufacturers sell YOUR DREAMS!!! If we lose them, we will fall victim to the sterile boring Asian built crap that keeps seeping into our roads. NO imagination, no innovation, just copy it make it smaller and cheaper.. POOF…you got a Toyota. Put a timing belt on it that snaps and takes out the whole motor…POOF…Honda…you get the idea. If we lose them, what do we have left that is American? Everything else is built somewhere else already.

“We have Finance Minister Flaherty on record saying, they will get nothing until the show us a plan for recovery…which is basically like asking Wagoner to show him a Unicorn. ”

Now that is FUNNY!

I wish people would quit blaming this mess on GM’s current product line. Apparently these people have been asleep several years. Time to wake up…

Cobalt XFE37>Corolla35
Malibu33>Camry31
Impala29>Avalon28
SilveradoXFE21>Tundra19
Traverse24=Highlander24
Tahoe HYBRID21>Sequoia17

In each case, the GM product has better mileage and price, and a better warranty. The only thing missing is a Prius counterpart, and that’s where the Volt comes in.

If I hear “Detroit only makes gas guzzlers, so they deserve it” one more friggen’ time, I’m going to start spitting blood.

http://gmfactsandfiction.com/

E-mail your representatives in Congress by clicking on “I‘m a concerned American” and tell them that you support the Loan to GM, Ford and Chrysler.

And or Call 1-866-927-2233 to be connected to your representatives by phone.

Thanks for supporting America, GM, Ford and Chrysler.

Also please forward to fellow Americans.

GM’s CEO was asked if he would take a $1 a year salary through “This economic trough”. He replied by saying, “I have already taken a 50% cut in pay”. Chrysler and Ford leaders said they would. Ford went on to say that they didn’t want to cut pay to the point where workers weren’t motivated to make good cars. “We want to be competitive with the rest of the world market”.

When Ford, GM, and Chrysler were asked if the American tax payer can be reassured that this bail out money wouldn’t just be spent over seas, they replied, “Our over seas industry is still making money. We see ourselves as global industries”. In other words, a double speak non-answer.

When Congress suggested that an immediate infusion of tax payer money into road, bridge, and high way upgrading will create demand for cars. And that this will help the auto industry. The reply from all three is that, “We need money now to avoid a collapse of the entire production and support systems”. They worked the “fear” factor to assure the money will go to them directly and not to infrastructure upgrades.

The small gain in this session is that all parties, including the Union, are defining their positions. Some for better, some for worse. I feel less likely to support a bail out after watching this session.

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