I recently saw photos of acres and acres of cars that were waiting

[monmouth]

to either be sold or perhaps shipped somewhere. There is a huge inventory of cars. Shouldn't they be moved/sold first? I really have no knowledge on this but it just seems that those acres of cars should be moved on. Dealerships going out of business is bad and sad. Wondering how this could tie in...

[lutefisk]

1. They don't want to lower prices, apparently. It's a stalemate between buyers and sellers.

There really need to be some larger incentives, price reductions for people to start buying cars, again. I'm probably buying a new car in the next 3-6 months, and so far prices/incentives are no better than they were a few years ago. I guess they'd rather crush the cars than lower prices.

[JDPriestly]

2. The problem is jobs for ordinary Americans -- jobs that pay enough

to permit Americans to buy cars and other things. We bled good jobs during the Clinton and Bush administrations (starting witn Bush I). Bush bragged about all the new jobs created during his administration, but he did not discuss the fact that wages stagnated and declined because the new jobs were low-paying service jobs.

America needs an industrial base, and to get that we have to get our alternative energy industry moving. The Wall Street mess is a distraction from the real business of getting our country back on its feet.

Alternative energy and energy independence are the most important things we can achieve. If we can, in the long term, lower the cost of energy, we can enjoy a higher standard of life and produce things more cheaply. That should be our focus. Once we have energy independence, we can achieve industrial independence. We need both.

[global1]

3. I Want Assurances First That If We Start Building Solar Cells And Wind Turbines Here.......

that these jobs will stay in this country and not be shipped overseas once the market is established and the corps that are building these can lower costs by getting these things made overseas.

If we don't put conditions on this new alternative energy industry that we hope to build to provide jobs and get us out of this economic crisis. We'll chance seeing the same thing happen to it as has happened to all our other manufacturing industries.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Just wait for that to happen, it will. Just like every other 'new' industry, shipped out of the

country for higher profits/lower wages.

[JDPriestly]

5. I agree with you. Right now, most of the solar panels are not made here as I understand it.

[Fumesucker]

6. Stagnating wages started a lot further back than Bush I..

[JDPriestly]

7. They started with Nixon and the first oil crisis (which I remember extremely well since

I was working in the oil business at the time.)