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Don't you just love it when you can look at two things and just see that 2+2 does indeed equal 4? Consider these two headlines: Toyota Motor To Begin Talks With GM On Pull-Out From US Joint Venture Toyota Targets Profitability in North America by Next Fiscal Year Isn't that a remarkable coincidence?  

Meet Ron Bloom. He's the second head of the Automotive Task Force that's part of the government effort to not run General Motors. His predecessor, Steve Rattner, stepped down from the position last week after less than six months on the job to return to private life in New York...

AR Index     553.23  +16.76  (+3.23%)  Stocks of individual interest Toyota  76.11  +1.52 GM        0.51     -0.64 Ford      6.19    +0.50 Dow 8848.15  +516.47   (+6.20%) The stock market is one place where you generally get a good view about what people really think about things because they're voting with their dollars. Now that we own GM, the stock in our company has only dropped 55%. Yea, I bet we the people are going to come out of this deal smelling like something, but with the way the government seems bent on sticking their noses into the auto business, I'd wager it's not going to be a rose...

"So we are acting as reluctant shareholders, because that is the only way to help GM succeed. What we are not doing, what I have no interest in doing, is running GM." You know what they say about a politician's moving lips. This past Thursday, a spending bill was passed in the House...

Dear Dub, Every year, just when the weather gets nice and I can finally get out on the road and enjoy my car, the road construction starts up and the open roads aren't so open. And this happens every year, most of the time on the same road they worked on the year before. Detour Hater Well DH, for years there's apparently been a grass roots movement to try and stop this...

 It's here!  We have the new 2010 Chevrolet Equinox at our Cincinnati and Dayton Chevy dealerships.  I have to say I am impressed...

I shouldn't be surprised. After all, I did point out yesterday that stupid is forever, and it happens all around us every day. But I've never had this happen before...

It's bad when bad things happen, but it's starting to bug me when people think that everything bad can be prevented or eliminated. We're never going to get rid of stupid. Case in point, apparently they're having a problem in Texas with people driving the wrong way on the North Dallas Tollway...

Back in September 2007 I did a blog entry titled, Nitrogen: A Noble Gas? and it's time for a little follow up on how things are going. If you take care of your tires, if your rotate them religiously, keep an eye out that you're running at the proper pressure in your tires, etc., then you're not really going to notice any changes running nitrogen in your tires...

AR Index     518.47  +1.42  (+0.27%) Stocks of individual interest Toyota  74.59  -1.02 GM        1.15    +0.45 Ford      5.69    -0.06 Dow 8331.68  +6.81   (+0.08%) The chart for the last three months looks fairly calm and steady. That's quite a switch from a year ago when gas prices had peaked in my area at $4.09/gallon (currently at $2.55 and falling) and crude oil was at $139/bbl (now at $59 and also dropping) I saw that diesel fuel in California is less than half of it was in mid-July of 2008 and that has to please the trucking industry. We still have a disconnect between the realities of supply and demand and prices at the pump, but the commodity market wasn't able to drive prices as high this year for some reason...