The Passing of Pontiac

It is SAD that many fine traditional product lines and old names now have to be retired --- but there is hardly any choice any longer.

What I have heard theorized is that GM is now looking to split itself into two pieces, corralling its VIABLE businesses and assets into one of them and letting the other go bankrupt.

But those VIABLE assets will include the Chevy VOLT --- which is CLEARLY the prototype of the whole automotive technology of the future, since it points the way to ELIMINATING up to seven-eighths of "our" abject, addictive dependency on FOREIGN OIL to refine into gasoline to brainlessly burn up as a mere fuel to power automobiles!

GM has also, as I understand it, put in for $2.6 Billion in "bailout" funding to COMPLETE the Volt initiative (which has already been just about finished and all but "ready to go" --- having been "under development" for the past two or more years now already) --- and that plans are now already afoot to extend the technology to the Cadillac and Buick lines as well.

And THAT, I submit, would be about the SMARTEST $2.6 Billion the government will have spent in the whole massive attempt to underwrite the reestablishment of a functional economy for this nation. For THAT would be the "skeletal framework" on which the whole automotive industry could rebuild!

But better get busy actually WORKING on all of that, folks --- for contrary to a FALSE notion fondly perpetuated by many of the older heads among us, "we" are NOT the only center of technological advance in the world any longer (as though "we" ever ACTUALLY were!). The EUROPEAN counterpart of the VOLT (jovially dubbed the AMPERE) is now SLIGHTLY AHEAD in the "development derby" --- having now been UNVEILED already at a major European auto show. And you can BET that all those clever folks over in ASIA are ALSO "hot on the trail" as well!

I submit that it is WAY PAST high time to nostalgically long for the "good old days of business as usual" to return. It is instead time to "roll up our sleeves" and GET BUSY doing ALTERNATIVE ENERGY THINGS that are now going to be needed in the aftermath of "cheap, easy" oil. Those technological alternatives DO EXIST, and they HAVE INDEED been devised, "explored", investigated, and many even "piloted" going back MANY YEARS NOW ALREADY. What needs to happen next is that they are going to have to actually be IMPLEMENTED --- and that "green-collar” economy about which many have been talking NEEDS TO BE GENUINELY INSTITUTED AND SERIOUSLY PURSUED!

So get busy DOING that, people, instead of milling about aimlessly like cattle in holding pens at a slaughterhouse. If WE don't do the job --- you can RELY on it that OTHERS ELSEWHERE WILL do it "for" us. And I wonder how many people here will then enjoy being in a position of "economic subordination" --- and ultimately SUBSERVIENCE --- to folks of OTHER ethnicities and cultures...

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