Many of you are probably sports fans and at one time or another got frustrated with a bad owner or coach. Currently, the Minnesota "Love Boat" Vikings are an excellent example of a bad team. Do the Viking fans want their team to go away? No - just get a coach and/or manager that can turn them around. Granted some of the players are also suspect....

I see GM the same way: kill the cancer - not the patient. Some of you may say that cancer has spread throughout their organization, which I can't disagree.

I can't entirely blame GM for their problems. The American public has had this appetite for large vehicles for so long, the subcompact/compact choices have shrunk until very recently. Remember the Ford Escort and Honda CRX? American sedans have also suffered as the once popular Oldsmobile is history, about to be followed by the Tarus.

One thing I'd really like to have been added on the recent Energy Bill is closing the gap between the EPA requirements between light trucks and passenger vehicles. If this gap had been closed, Detroit would have had a more balanced offering of vehicles. If Escalades had to meet the passenger car safety standards, get better fuel economy, GM would not have been as eager to build them.

61.5mpg lifetime - 82mpg in recent months

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"fanatic" is what the lazy call the dedicated