Cassandra

Like Cassandra in Greek mythology,today's Cassandra looks at the American political landscape and warns of danger ahead.

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As an ex-journalist and government worker, I'm one of those rare Americans who actually cares about the country's future and pays attention to what's happening in the present. With this blog, I hope to make people look more critically at the news. It's our duty as citizens to know what's going on and to speak out.

Friday, August 11, 2006

DETROIT'S DREAM WORLD

The automakers in Detroit must be inhaling too many car fumes. While the world struggles with escalating oil prices and terrorist-spawning countries that sell the fuel, the automakers blindly churn out gas guzzlers.

GM announced it will bring back the Chevy Camaro, a V-8 gas-hungry muscle car from the '60s. It will also continue to churn out light trucks and SUVs because that's where its profits are. Ford is planning to build a 325-horespower Shelby GT and a humongous Lincoln MKS sedan. Instead of giving the public what it wants, that is gas-frugal small cars, automakers continue on their disasterous road of forcing their monsters on the American public.

But consumers will not be fooled. That's why Toyota cars are the number 1 sellers in the country. And as prices at the pump escalate to $4 a gallon, more and more consumers will stop buying American-made clunkers. The automakers are committing suicide, and they better not come crying to U.S. taxpayers for a bail-out like Chrysler did.

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