I don't like the smell of the auto-maker bailout. These are companies that deliberately ignored fuel efficiency while continuing to produce ridiculously gigantic penis-compensators. General Motors in particular is facing bankruptcy, yet they killed the EV1 electric car a decade ago, and they're responsible for the Escalade. Smart!
So we're supposed to bail them out? Obviously, saving the hundreds of thousands of jobs is important, but if we do this, there have to be conditions: 1) no more outsourcing, 2) no more Escalades, Hummers and the like. That's a fair trade off, no?