<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for S&P cites automakers’ cashflow concerns]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Pangolin http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:51:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/1 Woo-hoo!! Dead Pool!!

I'm betting $200 Ford gives up the ghost on Feb. 13th 2009.

Since I don't have  a nickel in this fight and my government doesn't give a rat's hiney about my health and well-being I can't wait until all those auto company executives are standing on the curb with a pink slip in hand facing a few thousand angry auto workers.

Oh, and before we get the boo-hoo story about vanishing union jobs lets remember that the unions didn't use one bitty bit of their political or negotiating clout to promote gas-saving cars and trucks. Or universal health care, or the 55 mph speed limit any of which would have saved their bacon.

Plug-in hybrids with about 50 mile all-electric ranges have been feasible for over 10 years and Detroit automakers did everything possible to kill the concept. If they had ganged up and issued traction battery standards and agreed to all use them it wouldn't be Prius turning heads at family reunions but something labeled Chevy.

It's slow but it might be justice.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Woo-hoo!! Dead Pool!!

I'm betting $200 Ford gives up the ghost on Feb. 13th 2009.

Since I don't have  a nickel in this fight and my government doesn't give a rat's hiney about my health and well-being I can't wait until all those auto company executives are standing on the curb with a pink slip in hand facing a few thousand angry auto workers.

Oh, and before we get the boo-hoo story about vanishing union jobs lets remember that the unions didn't use one bitty bit of their political or negotiating clout to promote gas-saving cars and trucks. Or universal health care, or the 55 mph speed limit any of which would have saved their bacon.

Plug-in hybrids with about 50 mile all-electric ranges have been feasible for over 10 years and Detroit automakers did everything possible to kill the concept. If they had ganged up and issued traction battery standards and agreed to all use them it wouldn't be Prius turning heads at family reunions but something labeled Chevy.

It's slow but it might be justice.

Put the Carbon Back

]]> Comment #2 by infp http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:00:23 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/2 Gold parachutes are packed and ready

If the Big Three go down you can bet that the executives will do just fine.  That is what executives do; they look after their own best interests, not their employees.  And yet Americans love to elect former executives into public office, believing that these people will suddenly turn altrustic when they have a government job.  

]]> Gold parachutes are packed and ready

If the Big Three go down you can bet that the executives will do just fine.  That is what executives do; they look after their own best interests, not their employees.  And yet Americans love to elect former executives into public office, believing that these people will suddenly turn altrustic when they have a government job.  

]]> Comment #3 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:11:24 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/3 GM

Stock at 53 year low.  That's a shame.

What's good for GM is good for america?  I guess gas guzzling isn't good anymore.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> GM

Stock at 53 year low.  That's a shame.

What's good for GM is good for america?  I guess gas guzzling isn't good anymore.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> Comment #4 by Lisa Payday http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:20:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/big-three-on-credit-watch/4 Is there still hope for U.S industry?!

We need to be particular with the present situation of our country. The industry is really in danger. There are a lot of people out there who end up needing credit repair help because of two things that are very powerful forces, even if they aren't actually empirically real. (Empirical meaning that which is measurable, and can also be completely reproduced over and over, i.e. scientifically proven.) The first force is that most diabolical of couples, the Joneses, who we have to keep matching pace with, and the second force is the pressure to live up to the American Dream of multiple cars, a big house with a white picket fence, and to have bigger and better stuff than the Joneses. It has been ingrained so deeply into the American consciousness that if you don't have these things, that you have to go deep into debt to acquire them, or somehow you aren't a good person. It breaks people down mentally and financially. Security is all well and good - nay, it is vital - but it is not written anywhere that you have to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to keep up with a mythical couple. Many people's credit score has dipped so low because of the pursuit of that "American Dream" and keeping up with the Joneses, and many are in need of credit repair help. Click to read more on Credit Repair.

]]> Is there still hope for U.S industry?!

We need to be particular with the present situation of our country. The industry is really in danger. There are a lot of people out there who end up needing credit repair help because of two things that are very powerful forces, even if they aren't actually empirically real. (Empirical meaning that which is measurable, and can also be completely reproduced over and over, i.e. scientifically proven.) The first force is that most diabolical of couples, the Joneses, who we have to keep matching pace with, and the second force is the pressure to live up to the American Dream of multiple cars, a big house with a white picket fence, and to have bigger and better stuff than the Joneses. It has been ingrained so deeply into the American consciousness that if you don't have these things, that you have to go deep into debt to acquire them, or somehow you aren't a good person. It breaks people down mentally and financially. Security is all well and good - nay, it is vital - but it is not written anywhere that you have to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to keep up with a mythical couple. Many people's credit score has dipped so low because of the pursuit of that "American Dream" and keeping up with the Joneses, and many are in need of credit repair help. Click to read more on Credit Repair.

]]>