Daily Archives: July 1, 2009
Down is up in American news rooms
The three biggest car makers in America called a bottom to the long decline in U.S. auto sales as the industry reported its smallest monthly sales drop this year. New-vehicle sales in June fell 28% from a year earlier to … Continue reading
New GM, same GM, more tax money?
We’ve got a new D-Day in the historic General Motors Corp. bankruptcy: If the automaker’s good assets cannot be sold to a “New GM” by July 10, CEO Fritz Henderson told a bankruptcy judge in New York today, the company … Continue reading
Thoughts for the 4th of July
The America of my youth is gone. The America of our founders is in mortal peril. Sovereign states, and limited federal government is being turned upside down. Unless we wake up soon the Land of the Free and the Home … Continue reading
Plug in cars the next great boondoggle?
In the name of “clean energy,” Washington is subsidizing a switch from gasoline-powered cars to cars powered mostly by coal. via Are plug-in electric cars the new ethanol? | Washington Examiner. I have often wondered about the benefit to society … Continue reading