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It is SAD that many fine traditional product lines and old names now have to be retired --- but there is hardly any choice any longer.

What I have heard theorized is that GM is now looking to split itself into two pieces, corraling its VIABLE businesses and assets into one of them and letting the other go bankrupt.

But those VIABLE assets will include the Chevy VOLT --- which is CLEARLY the prototype of the whole automotive technology of the future, since it points the way to ELIMINATING up to seven-eighths of "our" abject, addictive dependency on foreign OIL!

GM has also, as I understand it, put in for $2.6 Billion in "bailout" funding to COMPLETE the Volt initiative (which has already been just about completely engineered and is all but "ready to go" --- having been "under development" for the past two or more years now already), and that plans are now afoot to extend the technology to the Cadillac and Buick lines as well.

And THAT, I submit, would be about the SMARTEST $2.6 Billion the government will have spent in the whole massive attempt to underwrite the reestablishment of a functional economy for this nation. For THAT would be the "skeletal framework" on which the whole automotive industry could be rebuilt!

But better get busy actually WORKING on all of that, folksfolks --- for, contrary to FALSE notions fondly perpetuated by many of the older heads among us --- "we" are NOT any longer (if indeed "we" EVER actually were) the only center of technological advance in the world! The EUROPEAN counterpart of the VOLT (which has been jovially dubbed the AMPERE) is now SLIGHTLY AHEAD in the "development derby" --- having now been UNVEILED already at a major European auto show. And you can BET that all those clever folks over in ASIA must ALSO be "hot on the trail" as well!

I submit that it is WAY PAST high time to be nostalgically longing for the "good old days" of "business" to come back --- and time to instead "roll up our sleeves" and GET BUSY doing the ALTERNATIVE ENERGY THINGS that are going to be needed in the aftermath of "cheap, easy" oil. Those technological alternatives DO EXIST, and they HAVE INDEED been "explored", investigated, and many of them even "piloted" going back MANY YEARS NOW ALREADY. What needs to happen now is that they are actually going to have to be IMPLEMENTED --- and that "green-collar-economy" about which many have been talking NEEDS TO ACTUALLY BE INSTITUTED AND SERIOUSLY PURSUED.

So get busy DOING that, people, instead of milling about aimlessly like cattle in holding pens at a slaughterhouse. If WE don't do the job --- you can RELY on it that OTHERS ELSEWHERE WILL do it "for" us. And I wonder how many people here will then enjoy being in a position of "economic subservience" to folks of OTHER ethnicities and cultures...

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