[Floyd Rivers]

I’ll cough up the cash to convert my large truck to propane before I would ever consider owning a tiny and soulless Prius, etc.

[RandallFlagg]

Ping!

[singfreedom]

What do you expect from a guy named Osama Hussein Obama?

I’m glad to see the auto workers are finally realizing that the American automakers are in trouble. Better late than never, I guess. Too bad they don’t also recognize the reason.

[mirkwood]

10 mpg and incredible in the Maine snow. We do not salt the roads in Downeast.

[sportutegrl]

All of this focus on fuel economy doesn't take into account car efficiency. There are more factors than mpg to take into account when considering the efficiency of a vehicle. For instance, if we were to require that children travel to school in vehicles that get the highest mpg, then we would have 10 or 20 priuses traveling the same route. This is much less efficient than one 5 mpg school bus going the same route.

A large family may be more efficiently carried in a minivan or sportute than two or three passenger cars, which can only hold two children each thanks to rules restricting children to the back seat and laws requiring car seats for children up to 4'9".

My sportute is my tool, to take my children places, to carpool, pick up extended family, to get groceries, carry supplies, drop off at goodwill, etc., etc., I need and use a sport utility vehicle and I WON'T GIVE IT UP WITHOUT A FIGHT.

[Turbopilot]

Obama's legislation would give $3 billion to the Big Three American automakers (Ford, Chrysler and General Motors).

Brilliant. Force U.S. auto makers to build cars that Americans don't want, and then force the people who don't want them to pay for them whether or not they even drive them. Unless you're a member of the political class, in which case my tax dollars will continue to pay for you to travel in your armored Suburban.