Bob McCarty Writes

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 communicate their [...]

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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, “Our [...]

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