"The key" to America's lagging fuel economy standards?

Recently, I played host to a film crew from the U.K., three youngish ( sorry, gents ) guys that live mostly in or around London. Since there’s necessarily a lot of time standing around, while somebody fiddles with a camera angle or the lighting, we got talking about cars.

The subject came up, since they’d flown into San Francisco from London, and rented what they’d hoped would be a SUV capable of carrying three strapping men, their luggage, and a large quantity of professional film and sound gear to last for the three weeks they plan on driving around the Sierras.

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Friday Fish Wrap: May 1, 2009

Obama’s Press Conference: As a pretty experienced public speaker myself, this guy knocks it out of the ballpark every time. Not even Kennedy could match Obama in the press conference arena, giving detailed, thoughtful responses to detailed, thoughtful questions…

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Will somebody, please, turn out the lights at Chrysler?

It depends on how you want to look at it, but I think it’s a positive that I’m old enough to remember the old Lee Iacocca years at Chrysler and the original government bailout of that perpetually troubled automotive firm. I also have enough of my chemo-fogged memory intact to remember thinking at the time that the company should go away.

The question seems to be hanging on: how many times will we do this for Chrysler?

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