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		<title>Obama&#8217;s effect on the auto industry</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/05/19/obamas-effect-on-the-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/05/19/obamas-effect-on-the-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As if the auto industry didn&#8217;t have enough problems already, the Obama administration is planning to up the fuel economy requirements on cars to 35.5 mpg. I can&#8217;t even begin to comprehend the logic in this move. In one breath, Obama is touting government involvement to save the dying US auto industry and in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter about bad driving?</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/04/30/twitter-about-bad-driving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/04/30/twitter-about-bad-driving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the stupidist thing I have seen in a while. CNN news has picked up a story about a Twitter group that encourages people to &#8220;tweet&#8221; (I hate that saying) about bad drivers. &#8220;Why waste your time futilely shaking your fist at the driver who cut you off on the country road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Pontiac 1926 &#8211; 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/04/27/rip-pontiac-1926-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[General Motors will announce today the end of the Pontiac brand. As part of their restructuring, they will kill off the &#8220;we build excitement&#8221; nameplate. &#8220;Two people briefed on GM&#8217;s plan confirmed that it includes the demise of Trans Am sports car brand Pontiac, 83 years after the first Pontiac car was introduced.&#8221; Could it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t drive 55? Get ready to pay.</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/04/24/cant-drive-55-get-ready-to-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/04/24/cant-drive-55-get-ready-to-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve already seen that Obama really loves appointing special interests to his administration. He&#8217;s allowed Chicago style politics to invade Washington at an unprecedented rate. In the latest example of that, he has appointed Chuck Hurley (CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving) to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Now wait. Isn&#8217;t appointing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government exerting control over auto industry</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/29/government-exerting-control-over-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/29/government-exerting-control-over-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who thought bailing out the auto industry (or anything for that matter) was a good idea, take a look at this. &#8220;General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, administration officials said Sunday. The news comes as President Obama prepares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How (not?) to pay a speeding ticket</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/26/how-not-to-pay-a-speeding-ticket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/26/how-not-to-pay-a-speeding-ticket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was really torn over the headline for this one&#8230; how not to.. or maybe how to pay a speeding ticket. Speeding tickets happen. Sometimes they are your fault, and sometimes they are just traps for the local governments to collect a &#8220;road tax&#8221;. More often than not, the latter is the case these days. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying car or folding plane?</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/19/flying-car-or-folding-plane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/03/19/flying-car-or-folding-plane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days, news of the first flight of a &#8220;flying car&#8221; has been splashed all over the headlines. Am I the only one to find this news laughable? When you first read the headline, images of the Jetsons pop in your head and you think &#8220;I will have a flying car in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxed per mile by GPS?</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/02/20/taxed-per-mile-by-gps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/02/20/taxed-per-mile-by-gps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard about the plan to tax per mile by GPS devices for a while. From what I understand Canada has looked into this and a few US states have been researching the idea. However, it seems to be getting some traction now with the Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, endorsing the idea. What&#8217;s more disturbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to kill the auto industry</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/01/26/how-to-kill-the-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2009/01/26/how-to-kill-the-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how efficient the government can be in wasting money and expanding their control into areas they know nothing about. Today, the all knowing One issued new rules on the already ailing auto industry in the name of being &#8220;green&#8221; and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. This is all well and good, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The auto industry gets your money</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/19/the-auto-industry-gets-your-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/19/the-auto-industry-gets-your-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. The auto industry has gotten a 17.4 billion (with a &#8220;B&#8221;) dollar bailout&#8230; and that is just for a start to hold them over until the new administration and congress gets in office. As our Ford Explorer starts to fall apart conveniently as the warranty expires and the dealer admits the extended warranty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Really Need a Car Czar?</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/09/do-we-really-need-a-car-czar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/09/do-we-really-need-a-car-czar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always felt funny about the use &#8220;czar&#8221; in US politics. The word is rooted in ancient Rome when the emperors took Julius&#8217; name to signify their stature. The name was reused in the form of tsar (czar) in Russia to denote their emperors. So needless to say a name used to signify imperial rule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit: Lesson Learned!</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/02/detroit-lesson-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/12/02/detroit-lesson-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the US automaker bigwigs learn fast that you don&#8217;t show up for the welfare line in an Armani suit. It&#8217;s a shame that they don&#8217;t learn how to run automobile companies so fast. It seems almost days ago that they few into Washington in their private jets with tin cans extended, begging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Selling Off Jets</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/24/gm-selling-off-jets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/24/gm-selling-off-jets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only last week that I posted about the auto executives flying to Washington in their private jets to beg for taxpayer bailout money. I guess the jets were indeed owned by the auto companies as GM has now decied to sell two in their fleet of jets. Either way, politicians in Washington were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Bailout Follies</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/19/more-bailout-follies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/19/more-bailout-follies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest episode of the national bailout comedy act, the big three auto maker executives flew to Washington in private jets to beg for our government&#8217;s bailout money. Wagoner, whose flight reportedly cost $20,000 round-trip — about 70 times more than a commercial airline ticket — told Congress he expected about $10-$12 billion from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bailing out the UAW</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/17/bailing-out-the-uaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/17/bailing-out-the-uaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So who would really be the target of an auto industry bailout? GM, Ford, and Chrysler? I think the real target would be the United Auto Workers union. Now I am normally all for saving jobs, but let&#8217;s consider that the big three pay approximately 12,000 people not to work as part of the UAW&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs a Bailout? The Auto Industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/12/who-needs-a-bailout-the-auto-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.currentmind.com/2008/11/12/who-needs-a-bailout-the-auto-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.currentmind.com/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the government bailed out the banks, it seems that Washington has installed a &#8220;Bailout Line Forms Here&#8221; sign in Washington. Within days of passing the banking bailout, there was already talk of the auto industry wanting their share too. The question now is, who really needs a bailout? Or better yet, who should [...]]]></description>
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