I am skeptical about the number 3 million since most of those are in other than car/truck direct manufacture. Suppliers can supply whoever is building cars. They might also include Mike the gas station owner who can fuel and fix any piece of rolling junk no matter who built it.
Well, I hadn't thought about it, but we now find that Tiger Woods is among the Three Million, since Buick has let him go as their spokesman.
Interestingly, the old crab of an editor who used to employ me, who cut his teeth at WSJ and a couple of other financial/business oriented newspapers, tells me that he includes several airlines, up to twenty that are on shaky financial ground, that will go under in the vortex that follows a Detroit automaker collapse. Interestingly, both industries are heavily unionized....
How low can the Dow go? [19 Nov; Marketoracle UK]
Worst of Financial Crisis to Come [Breitbart]
A near-riot and parliament besieged: Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch
[Iceland; 24 Nov]
5 injured during protest in Iceland over economic meltdown [More Iceland; 22 November 2008]