Maybe Obama didn't fire enough management. They don't get it and probably never will. You have to wonder about the consumers as well who will be the first begging for oil drilling in Florida or Alaska at the first gas price increase.
That gas-guzzling, pollutant-spewing darling of suburban and rural America is a passé relic of a bygone era, according to the book editors, fashion photographers, literary critics, Broadway choreographers and other practitioners of the bedrock industries that built this country.It also sounds like it's time to slap an ugly gas guzzler tax on these monsters. Maybe the Democrats won't go along with the coddling the auto manufacturers this time as they did during the Clinton years.
They’d better stay away from the New York auto show this week because there they will see car manufacturers showing off their latest off-road contenders, and the majority of the new models unveiled at the show’s press preview earlier this week were SUVs or crossovers. Why? Because while these vehicles may have been declared dead in Manhattan, the residents of the Fly-Over states have kept buying them (to the extent that anyone is buying anything more than food and water these days).
