<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for U.S. auto sales take a nosedive]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/autos/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:47:35 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/autos/1 Not Sure Which Way to Go


For me, it's the "Green Revolution" that makes me not want to buy.   With hydrogen cars, electric cards, new hybrids, alcohol cars slated to appear after 2010, who would want to be stuck paying a 5 year loan on a gas car?

Nissan to unveil electric vehicles in U.S. in 2010
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nissan-unveil-elect ...

With the price of gas as it, having a gas guzzler is literally like getting paid less money than your neighbor for the same amount of work, as you will be out hundreds of thousands of dollars every year paying for gas!



]]> Not Sure Which Way to Go


For me, it's the "Green Revolution" that makes me not want to buy.   With hydrogen cars, electric cards, new hybrids, alcohol cars slated to appear after 2010, who would want to be stuck paying a 5 year loan on a gas car?

Nissan to unveil electric vehicles in U.S. in 2010
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nissan-unveil-elect ...

With the price of gas as it, having a gas guzzler is literally like getting paid less money than your neighbor for the same amount of work, as you will be out hundreds of thousands of dollars every year paying for gas!



]]> Comment #2 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/autos/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:48:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/autos/2 Oh, the problem with brethren!

Did parents actually say that?: "Don't make me turn this car around"?

Fortunately, I, an only child, was just left in the back seat happily playing with my dinosaurs, and did not have to squabble with brethren.

There was indeed that very happy, traumatic moment, when my father was nearly eaten by an alligator in the Everglades, because he hard-headedly refused to heed the nice Park Guard's instruction, "Do not try to feed the alligators!," and once the Guard drove off, insisted on offering a middling-sized but hungry and ambitious alligator a slice of stale bread, while himself standing on a slippery slope.

What a lesson that would have been for him, had he been eaten!

And, what a lesson for all of this, if we could have learned to look deeper, closer to home.

]]> Oh, the problem with brethren!

Did parents actually say that?: "Don't make me turn this car around"?

Fortunately, I, an only child, was just left in the back seat happily playing with my dinosaurs, and did not have to squabble with brethren.

There was indeed that very happy, traumatic moment, when my father was nearly eaten by an alligator in the Everglades, because he hard-headedly refused to heed the nice Park Guard's instruction, "Do not try to feed the alligators!," and once the Guard drove off, insisted on offering a middling-sized but hungry and ambitious alligator a slice of stale bread, while himself standing on a slippery slope.

What a lesson that would have been for him, had he been eaten!

And, what a lesson for all of this, if we could have learned to look deeper, closer to home.

]]> Comment #3 by usandthem http://www.grist.org/article/autos/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:33:50 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/autos/3 Learn the lesson

While I do not feel good about americans losing jobs in the auto industry.I do say live and learn that the time for gas gusslers is long past and if the american auto industry can't see that and adapt,then they deserve to lose business to an adaptable Japan,China,India,and Korea.

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While I do not feel good about americans losing jobs in the auto industry.I do say live and learn that the time for gas gusslers is long past and if the american auto industry can't see that and adapt,then they deserve to lose business to an adaptable Japan,China,India,and Korea.

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