I agreed with Tom Thomas whole hartedly. Why are American car manufactures keep on building huge cars that the cusummers do not want. Why don't they use all their resources to build economically friendly cars, that are good for the enviroment and esay on the consumer pockets.

You get the government you deserve.

Oh-oh. Hammster is ticked off.

Who cares if Ford Motor Company or any of the airlines go out of business they dont care about the customers they serve.

The american corporations only care about the bottom line, you cant even speak to an english speaking customer service agent any longer, i hope the american economy goes bust the sooner the better we all let these problems occur by putting up with less and paying more, maybe if america goes down in flames we can start over again.

On a recent fly with Delta Airline, I wanted to change my ticket to stay another day in Georgia. Delta wanted to charge me $125.00 to change the returning date by one day. I offered them $75.00, but they refused. I ended up coming back at the original reservation date.Delta not only passed making an extra $75.00 but also deprived others from making additional sales such as the hotel and the car rental and local restaurants. That is not the way to encourage people to spend so the economy improves. But I guess Delta is only interested in thier bottom line.

What a pitty? I do not feel sorrow when companies like that go banktrupcy.

I get a kick out of reading automotive workers bumper stickers that say; "Out of a job yet? keep buying foreign". What a bunch of hypocrites from the UAW all the way to the stock holders. Walk into a American auto plant, anywhere in this country, and see how many American built machines are on the floor producing American automobiles. Not very many! They started buying foreign machines long before Americans started buying foreign automobiles. They put alot of American machine builders out of business. Ask a UAW member how many American Built machines they've bought for there plant, and man do they start backpeddling.

The  airlines   and  big  3 auto makers  normally will be bailed out by the U S  Govt. in time, along with the railroads. the ones that  suffer for high fuel, with no help ,are the smaller trucking compaines. If the President wanted to stimulate the economy.

   put a cap on a barrell of oil [ $50.00 per barrell  max] and things will get stimulated .  this is  double what opec wanted a couple years ago.

Airlines need to raise price of tickets to catch up with the prices of hotel rooms. Dollar is cheap tourists will come. It is amazing that people have no problem paying $300 a night in NY but complain about the Airline ticket prices!!! Business traveler is the worst. No complains about the hotels but God forbid the Airlines do not have their choice of the meal. Lets get real here.

This is a big fat mess! With all the technoglogy we have today in making things easy has fallen right before us. Greed, politicians supporting their dirty little habits and we foot the bill. You know who I'm talking about! Recession, depression just about sums it up and there is nothing we can do about it.  

You know the car business is bad when Honda starts discounting sticker prices.  A year ago I tried to purchase a CRV and the best I could find anywhere was sticker price.  I just purchased one last month for $1500 off sticker and no processing fees.  The dealers sales people almost fought over me when I walked in the door.  This recession / depression caused by oil prices will likely be the end of Ford.