There is plenty of stuff I’ve read that leads to a set-up of grand proportions … but being Canadian, I have little to no interest in getting directly involved.

I think what you should more or less focus on more intently though is Building Seven. Remember, no plane hit that building.

Like I stated, show the video and prove your case that it was an airliner … I say bull****.

Those who bought a truck because of “look” to go from point A to point B will probably trade. But some of us have legitimate need for such vehicle (especially truck). So the segment will shrink but won’t go away. Ford needs to learn to spread around their R&D and not put everything in one or two similar segments.

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…I was serious on that one

We are all allowed to believe what we want … I’ll take an opposing bet on this one.

Although I don’t really believe in your type of bias as to what hit the Pentagon, I admit without being part of the forensics investigation we don’t really have any insider info as to what it was. Then again, that means neither do you, so your acceptance of the belief that it WASN’T a Boeing is just as unfounded.

Every industrialized nation on earth, with the exception of USA and Canada, was built on the back of a 4-cylinder, often 2WD pickup truck. To all the Toyota HiLuxes, Mazda B-series, Datsun and Daihatsu pickups, we salute you…

If you had listened to me at $650, you would have profited … FACT. If you listen to me now, you will profit … FACT. If you wait until January of 2011, 2.5years from now, you’ll be too late … FACT.

Don’t question me, I have been right and will continue to be right … thank those who are ’superior’ to you in times like this and don’t try and ridicule or mock them … you already look foolish and only deserve to suffer with comments like your last. Actually, stick with the WSJ and Economist … you fit that demographic … you don’t deserve better.

We are land of open spaces, but 90% of population lives near or within cosmopolitan centers. Very small part of population lives in true open spaces and even smaller part of population travel outside of their own very limited space.

‘murphy’, eerily familiar to what I posted here many months ago.

‘Tom’, tell ‘em … adapt or die.

As has been mentioned in this thread and by me for the last year, gas will hit $5/gallon shortly. Bank on it. The dollar is dead and your economy is finished … you haven’t seen anything yet … this is just starting to plumb the depths of suffering for America. Sorry but it is going to get very ugly … buy gold NOW and thank me at $1200 this year … had you listened to me last year you would have bouoght at $650 and sold at $1000, like I advised. Or ignore the advice and put a gun to your forehead within 2 years.

And last time I looked, Toyota was building their fair share of SUVs and trucks. In case all of you Ford/GM haters have been hiding a cave for the past 5 years, I believe Toyota just built a HUGE TRUCK PLANT in San Antonio and had to put on hold plans to build another in the US. The Big 3 weren’t trying to ruin the US economy, they were trying to make profits. And if their trucks and SUVs were making them profits then so be it. I think it’s called capitalism. They may be late to the “green” party but at least they finally realized they had to do something to stop the bleeding, again to make profits. They’re not here to make people happy. They’re here to make cars for people to drive and make money. If you open your mind you’ll see Toyota operates under the same rules. They just seem smarter and greener. If I’m way off base, I’d say Ford has just as many trucks and SUVs in their lineup as Toyota does – somebody please correct me if I’m wrong, and I’m not talking sales I’m talking actual models in their lineup. Ford’s best selling “car” just happens to be a truck. Deal with it and stop bitching about how “Ford and GM screwed themselves by building trucks and SUVs instead of cars.” They built what sold, just as Toyota did and does. Now they need to do something different with their lineups because of the green movement and gas prices. It’s not personal, folks, it’s business.

I am old enough to have been a teenager during the ‘73 oil shock, when we were horrified to see gas prices double to 60 or 70 cents a gallon. My family had a V-8 Plymouth Satellite that got about 14 mpg and we figured it was a dinosaur. If you had told me then that 35 years down the road, Americans would be lining up to buy 14 mpg vehicles, I would have called you insane.

The automakers are complicit in this crisis by failing to lead the marketplace toward more efficient vehicles until it is far too late. Now we are all in the ****. Fog-headed Americans who claim they “need” a Ford Expedition for their 4X-weekly trips to the Safeway are going to remodel their motoring habits along European guidelines.

$10/gallon fuel doesn’t bankrupt the European middle-class. They just live a little differently, and we are going to learn how to do likewise.

$100-$150/tank fillups are the way our work is going to look. Deal with it. We do not have a divine right to cheap oil. Real Americans are thinking up alternatives, not plotting World War III in hopes of bringing prices down.