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  • Jon - 15 years ago

    First, retired auto workers need to take a massive benifit cut.
    Second, auto workers need to take a massive pay and benefit cut.
    Third, auto companies need to rebuild themselves to suit todays market (that would be lower cost autos with higher efficiencies).

    All of these are possible through chapter 11 bankruptcy, none of these will happen via a bailout.

    I can't help but think how California's budget crisis, and big industries cost of health care benifits could be helped by a national health plan....

  • Bruno_B - 15 years ago

    let the japonese or chinese built cars, or even the europeans,
    convert then to built other stuff, more needed stuff, like wind mills, mass transit systems, electtrified rail or even electrified road-rail. use their master use of tehnology to fix the economy not to built more cars.
    have Crysler built an minibus fleet based on the already existing Crysler Sprinter a flex fuel Plug-in V2G car that can run on wide rage of fuels from CNG to diesel.

    or do what FDR did
    do you want a bailout we will give you a bailout but from next week you will not have one more gas guzzler being produzed. keep then independent but whit oversite, oversite by engineers not economist or marketeers, have by the 31 of december a fully flex-fuel Plug-in hybrid fleet. but amory lovins in charge.
    if not, F.U. the the big 3

  • amadeaus - 15 years ago

    I understand the interest in hybrid and electric cars as the only real viable alternative to gasoline powered cars at the moment, but I think it would be good to keep in mind that electricity does not come from MAGIC, but usually from some other exhaustable resource. The issue of whether or not to bail out the big 3 automakers is a rather complex one, and comments such as 'they should have thought about this before' and 'its their own fault for making SUVs' don't begin to address all of the factors tangled up in this economic web. I will state though that I would much rather see a bail out of the big 3 (who actually employ a myriad of people, and sustain a supply chain of part producers for many other industries) than AIG.

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