Subject: 96/Olsmobile/CIERA/wagon; milage 58k condition excellent. dealer serviced only. With the depletion of stock parts and dealers must draw from other distributors , how long can I expect to keep my Olds on the road? My size 14 tire are limited, and I would hate to try to find body parts.

The big government building contract jobs that are planned will require commercial trucks and vehicles that are made here in the U.S. by Ford and GM. None of the Japanese manufacturers have a heavy duty 3/4 or 1 ton truck capable of heavy hauling. And of course, unless all of the big government building contracts will be in metro areas, good luck getting truck service.

You might think it would be funny, justifiable, great, etc. to see the big 3 go under, but I promise that you will not like it. It will affect you.

Seeing the cars put together on the assembly line always leaves me with an empty feeling – because we’re so programmed to derive self esteem from the finished product.

So, it’s bizarre to look at the frame and think – THAT is a Caddy.

Also, you get to see the somewhat ‘for show’ or ‘phony’ side too – you’ll see workers slapping on HUGE plastic pieces.

Now, you know, once you HAVE that car ? it’s no longer JUST that piece of plastic that gets dented, or scratched, all of a sudden ? It’s as if ones self esteem is scarred if the car is damaged.

My prior landlord went out everyday to polish his caddy ( heh, I think he leased it too – hmm – leased self esteem, hmm ). I often thought, uh oh, if some mere happen chance event in the physics of the universe causes the car to get scratched or dented ? or damaged ? THERE GOES HIS SELF ESTEEM WITH IT.

so, let’s think about this.

the auto sector – like the diamond cartel – has us marketed to death that our self esteem is to be derived from the car, and our true feelings are to be represented with the diamond.

NOW, if the CAR is base for self esteem in American culture ?

Can we deduce the car COMPANY ? ought to be too ?

If so, AND that GM, Ford and Chrysler are facing demise ?

I’d say that’s about the same as if my prior landlord’s Caddy got in a fender bender and he wasn’t insured.

Remember, AIG is treading water.

Point here – which I stumbled across 1/2 way into this is…

If the auto makers fail, this will be a black eye to the self esteem of the nation state. If there can be such a thing. Morale perhaps ?

THIS was ALWAYS the downside of deriving self-esteem from a CAR !

that the car MAKERS go under ? I guess everyone will have to find a new means to derive self esteem !

Okay okay, I don’t support deriving self esteem Western style – that is – from things OUTSIDE oneself, shiny objects, BMW’s etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not immune to the marketing, but I AM trying to be objective on things.

Perhaps if American’s derive self esteem from their cars ?

America has derived it’s self esteem as a nation state through the entire auto industry.

Nothing wrong with cars in my book – just reduce emissions (INCLUDING CO2) to zero and I’ll support it.

Deep black space ? you bet Gravity is our #1 force to tackle. Then climate. THEN with proper climate, we can have air that’s not liquid at 450 below.

Oil is what needs to go.

Not the auto makers.

Hmm – odd I ended up with that – but I think I can agree with that.

Consider this though, in asking what if the car company dies.

Remember the gas prices ? the $2.99 cards ? from GM ? and Ford ?

They CLEARLY bought oil futures – and to offer gas at $2.99 ?

They probably paid out the nose.

so those losses are sitting there right ?

So, here is the question – what happens to my $2.99 GAS card if my car company goes down.

Point here is no one WANTS $2.99 gas right now, but the car companies were foolish enough to GUARANTEE it for 3 years, that means they MUST have jacked up oil futures in part to do themselves in.

I really do believe Lehman went down on oil futures volatility.

I agree with Muriel Siebert the commodities are NOT gambling tables. They were originally designed to set the REAL price.

Rampant abuse BY the companies who got so involved into oil futures as if it was some magic money making machine…. ALL got burned, and to date ?

I WAGER a LOT of the bailout is because these corp’s jeopardized themselves on oil greed towards profits from the oil futures.

with oil below 50 ?

My god – GM and Ford have to be losing their shirts.

I didn’t see anyone today in congress bring up how much of the loans they want will go to pay for their gambling losses.

That is the unspoken truth going on here too- people GAMBLED on oil futures…

and they lost.

We’re NOT the Saudi’s –

What’s real funny ?

The Saudi’s play currency futures.

Bottom line though Brian

WHOLE LOTTA money lost on oil futures.

Oil shouldn’t even BE in our future –

That we had LEADED gasoline is just unimaginable.

What’s the NEXT leaded gas discovery ? Mercury if you ask me.

I hope you gain time to explore this regarding the oil futures hedges GM and Ford MUST HAVE MADE to offer gas at the low low price of $2.99

That should be publicized so some of congress can get wind to make SURE – the car companies can’t spend a DIME of the loans on ANY oil futures losses.

I WAGER the ceo’s would say ‘but but – that’s part of our losses that caused this !’

I wager.

Very much enjoy the humor – keep up the good work.

second – Petro China.

Do the math on who is sitting in the White House.

Now, if ONLY the Bushes has a history in oil to back up my points.

hmmmmm

Doesn’t really matter to punish them, we have a climate crisis on our hands, our kids do.

ALL thanks to 60% of oil pumped goes to BURNING GAS.

Maybe we should get all the oil company execs and play the game of “See who can stand closest to the exhaust if your product is all that healthy”.

In fact ? if you FORCED an oil exec to suck on an exhaust pipe ?

You know they’d sue.

Isn’t that strange ?

And yet – it’s SAFE ?

Those people are mad as all hell

and they are justified too.

USA has NO business drilling in Iraq.

NONE.

And for all people to say – let’s drill locally- HA

Exxon, Sunoco, Conoco, BP – they ALL went on line 3 months ago in Iraq since Saddam canned it.

Hmm- think THAAAAAAYAT might be the REAL reason to go to Iraq.

You bet.

Oil is destroying our lives Brian.

The people who ONLY see profits and desire to be the Clamped’s in Beverley Hills are the REAL criminals – and I think GITMO is appropriate for the oil cartel.

Coal more so, but 60% of all oil goes to gas.

THAT has helped SEAL the deal – was it worth it ?

we traded GAS to combat GRAVITY – all the while forfeiting CLIMATE ?

was it worth it ?

I don’t think so.

Amazing how all the car companies offer up their plans to go electric all of a sudden as if that’s some kind of Wonka golden ticket to the Treasury candy factory.

they were in bed with the oil cartel for FIFTY YEARS…

and now ? WE are expected to pay for their incompetence ?

should have moved all oil when we moved off the gold standard.

Instead, we got the Bushes – TWENTY OF TWENTY EIGHT YEARS in the white house – no matter how you look at it – BUSHES.

OIL OIL and OIL.