[Doofer]

$25 billion advanced technology fund.

What the heck is this?

[Eric Blair 2084]

If Nancy Pelosi and the Sierra Club are the de facto new CEO of GM, you can be sure I won’t buy what they are selling.

Hybrids???

I want something that goes real fast and gets really shitty gas mileage.

[JamesA]

I’m wondering why a man making $9.00 an hour should help out a man making $28.00 plus an hour. Where is the logic?

[Gaffer]

The bailout will occur when Barney gets a Hummer!

[rhema]

[org.whodat]

The officials cautioned that talks are still very fluid and that there are still other options on the table and many details to discuss.

Political speak for lets try this balloon first.

[keving]

US Automakers are multinational corporations who sell and manufacture cars all over the world. Some of these cars are years ahead of American models in design and others are very gas efficient. So the question is, why aren't other nations trying to “bail out” Ford and GM? Are they having the same sales problems in other locales? Is it a problem of of LEFT (fuel economy) or the credit crisis (Car Loans)? If they close US plants can they import cars using their overseas manufacturing plants and existing dealerships?

The answer, I think, is that Congress has failed to translate the influx of money to banks to consumers to get loans, etc. The Fuel efficiency crisis may be an “American” thing as GM has very efficient cars in other nations but they are not for sale in the US. GM has their hand in other companies all over the world, but we have Congress who wants to be on TV.

Cars wear out and we have to buy them from someone, who will it be?