Bob McCarty Writes

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger Go ahead, close your eyes. Imagine a world where you get scoffed at and labeled a “polar bear killer” for driving a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon. And then imagine a France-like world where Americans work only 35 hours a week, or a Greece-like world where they [...]

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Lately, news about the automobile industry has been focused upon the bankruptcy filings of Chrysler and General Motors.  For Tavin Dillard, however, automobile “news” has been more personal.  The Sweet Tea Films video above tells why.

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Despite two recent trips to Washington, D.C. — first by private jet, then by electric vehicle — Big Three executives seem incapable of turning around the no-longer-profitable domestic automobile industry in the face of stiff competition from foreign manufacturers.  To help them out, I translated eight winter driving tips (shown in BOLD TYPE below) into [...]

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The National Football League’s Detroit Lions added yet another loss to their so-far-perfectly-awful season, losing a home game to the Indianapolis Colts, 31-21, Sunday.  That loss — the team’s 14th of the year vs. zero wins — must have inspired my friend David Donar at Political Graffiiti to create the end zone art shown above.  [...]

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On this day when the nation’s Big Three Automakers were required to submit plans for turning around their respective companies and, simultaneously, file the equivalent of a loan application to Congress, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the plans submitted. CHRYSLER In addition to using a colorful graphic (above) to [...]

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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters this afternoon he was disappointed that funding would not come out of the already-approved $700 billion package aimed at helping the economy as a whole and that he was disappointed that no action would be taken today. Speaking on behalf of a bipartisan group of senators, Senator Levin said, [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood behind the podium this afternoon and told Americans that they were rejecting calls for the auto industry to opt for bankruptcy and, instead, giving automobile industry executives one more chance — until Dec. 2 — to submit a plan that [...]

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