Seemingly humbled  by the criticism thrown at them when last they entered DC, the car execs have a new plan.  Ford is going to sell all it's jets and the top dog is going to work for $1 a year if he get's any money from the gov't, a la Lee Iococca, one of my favorite heroes ever.  GM honcho is driving to dc in a hybrid malibu this time.

Other plans include trying to get the unions to release their death grip on the company wallet and selling less productive brands.  I'm pretty sure that now congress won't be able to refuse them the money, because they've responded to pretty much all the contention raised at their previous requests, and that makes me happy, because I love american cars.  Don't get me wrong, I thought about buying a Toyota recently, but when I realized that my 20 year old dodge(one of the reasons Iococca is my hero) would get similar gas milage with mustang-whooping power, I was only more motivated to restore it.

If American cars went bankrupt, as the airline companies did, I agree with the people who say it would be the deathblow of American cars.  When you buy an airline ticket, your relationship with the airline is over when you get off the plane.  With a car, you have at least five years of warranty repairs, and in several cases, like me, maybe 20 years or more of maintenace. 

I wish good luck to the carguys and hope they are as renewed as their pitch.