[JuneBug]

Couple of thoughts- oil - we haven't built a new refinery in over 30 years, we have 50 "designer"blends of gas that keep production from running at peak effienency, we have plenty of oil and natural gas - but can't drill - all cause of the wacko enviro's and their lawyers/PR/ liberal lame stream media. Don't get me started on that whole global warming scam, there are so many scientist coming out AGAINST that now that it's even fading from the press.

Cars - the American car companies where doomed from the 50's, you can't pay crazy wages to guys with a high school education to screw in a couple of taillights and then give him 85% of his pay to read newspapers. No company can afford that. The parasites at the UAW finally drained the last drop, good job boys, now maybe you can come down south, make a third of your old pay and piss & moan how grand the old union was, till some redneck like me slaps your teeth down your throat and kicks your sorry butt 10 feet northward. I hate it! My teenage years were all about Z-28's and SS396 Chevelles - great cars and now - my kids think a Chevy is only a truck or vette. Good job everybody, thank you.

Hybrid cars- why bother when VW and MB have clean diesels that are simpler, great on gas, and last longer than gas engines (and we don't have any numbers on how long these fancy hybrid systems will last) all we need is more capacity at the refineries - see above- and you have cheap fuel.