Comments on: House Passes Auto Industry Bailout; Oil Prices Continue to Drop

By: Mean Joe Green #40: The Big 3 are Sinking (Sunk?) : Red, Green, and Blue

Mean Joe Green #40: The Big 3 are Sinking (Sunk?) : Red, Green, and Blue — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:23:21 +0000

[...] House Passes Auto Industry Bailout; Oil Prices Continue to Drop The Drive to Survive? U.S. auto bailout bill dies in Congress [...]

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U.S. to Resume Filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve : Red, Green, and Blue — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:43:08 +0000

[...] U.S. Department of Energy today announced that it plans to take advantage of the recent decline in crude oil prices, and will purchase approximately 12 million barrels of crude oil for the nation’s Strategic [...]

By: Brink of Depression? Fastest Consumer Price Drop Since 1932 : Red, Green, and Blue

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:27:16 +0000

[...] Gasoline prices have seen the sharpest decline as they plunged by 29.5% in November, the greatest drop since the government began keeping records in 1967. [...]

By: Gary Kirkland

Gary Kirkland — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:32:29 +0000

Why is it illegal for any Gasoline Powered Vehicle from 1996 to the Present to Emit too little Polluting Exhaust Emissions ? It is entirely possible to safely convert Gasoline into a clear dry Vapor that is 100 Parts of Air to 1 part of Fuel.Even the largest SUV could easily get 50 + MPG, with a marked decrease of Emissions, and an actual increase in Power, as well as much longer Engine Life.But, when a Vehicle is connected to an OBD II Emissions Analyzer for it's Annual Emissions Inspection, it's On Board Oxygen [O2] Exhaust Sensors must detect a sufficient amount of Polluting Exhaust Emissions that would indicate that the Vehicle is operating at 14.7 parts of Air to 1 part of Fuel.With Vaporized Gasoline, O2 Sensors will detect nothing.Thus, a Vehicle can fail it's Emissions Test for not emitting enough Polluting Exhaust Emissions.O2 Sensor Exemptions are allowed for Vehicles that have legally been converted to operate on Natural Gas, Propane, or Hydrogen, and are Registered as such.But again, not for safely vaporized Gasoline.I'm not the first to know this.far from it ! Just do a search on [the late] Tom Ogle.He was offered $25 Million to keep his Vaporizer off the Market, refused it, and died of "A Mysterious Death" soon after, and was totally discredited, as was Charles Nelson Pogue.Then, go to http://energy21.freeservers.com/bookrep.html and read through at least the first page.Even if it is not to be believed that Safe Vapor Fuel Technology is possible, the Fact remains that it is illegal to even attempt to do so with any Vehicle 13 Years old, or newer.And this insane Law, that only benefits Big Oil, and Vehicle Manufacturers, was passed during the Clinton Administration, with Al Gore's enthusiastic support ! Go Figure ! And since the vast majority of Vehicle Manufacturers want to sell their Vehicles in the U.S.A.,they tend to be made to conform to this EPA-OBD II Mandated 14.7 / 1 Air / Fuel Ratio, all over the World.If I could somehow send a Photo, i could easily prove my Point.I'm not trying to sell anything, I just want to get the Word out about the Suppression of Vapor Fuel Technology.

By: sm hudson

sm hudson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:48:34 +0000

A timely and well balanced article. The question of jobs going to foreign auto makers will be a public consideration. A large percentage of cars now on U.S. roads are made by "foreign" car makers (Honda and Toyota being the most represented). The truch is that many of these cars are produced right here in American factories. Toyota has manufacturing plants in Mississippi, Kentucky, Indiana and California (although, their most lauded environmental effort, the Prius, is manufactured in Japan). Not surprisingly, the large truck portion of their business has found its profits in the U.S.A. The Toyota Avalon, Solara, Matrix, Secoya and Sienna are manufactured here in the U.S. Honda has plants in Greensburg Indiana, Marysville, Ohio and Torrence, California. A visit to Honda's website indicates their investment in the U.S. facilities at $10.6 billion. They are also moving to increase their R&D in environmentally responsible vehicles at a commendable pace. A visit to their web site news articles is worth the time.

One positive result of the current "auto industry crisis" is that the health care industry costs are being pointed to as major stumbling blocks to profitability. President Elect Obama is poised to take this opportunity to push for a more nationally responsible health care system. I see no reason for not utilizing any opportunity to bring a desperately needed equitable health care system to this country. I also wonder that the monies allocated for this bailout couldn't be better utilized in supporting any workers being laid off while they are retrained and/or rehired either by leaner, more environmentally geared production facilities of their current employers, or their better run competitors who do, indeed hire American workers right here in the U.S.A.

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:31:58 +0000

For the auto makers to ask for money, yet not agree to make "clean" cars is perplexing at best. This has been a most difficult crisis, as the auto makers have definitely caused the mess they are in, but if they fail, it will be the workers – both in the auto industry and all supporting industries – that suffer the most.

So, do we bail out the incompetent executives in order to save the jobs of the workers?

And yet, part of the problem lies in the fact that wages in the domestic auto industry are out of line with international wages, and that is also a big part of the problem.

So, do we let the companies fail and let the jobs transition to the foreign auto makers?

By: A Edwards

A Edwards — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:21:51 +0000

Filibuster, long and hard. -There was no bill today, guess what . . the sky did not fall. The lobbyist win, mainstreet will loose. Please for once, quit this bailout mess!