13

Mar

Further Shenanigans in Auto World Socialist City

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Along the way – or the road down the path , the auditors came to the conclusion that the Winnipeg “Fleet Management Agency”  – one of the four “Special” operations operating agencies that are supposed to run like an independent business ( no  doubt with large bonuses allocated for performance and performance reviews), require more oversight from city departments.

The quote is ” although the Winnipeg Fleet Management Agency” was set up as a special operating agency in order to allow for greater autonomy on day to day decisions and decision making , it is evident that corporate depts such as IT information technology , human resources and finance need to play a greater role  with respect to oversight of WFMA actions.

Have I got this right – even more government bureaucrats , department and staff is the answer apparently.

“Son get  degree”, “He comes from a good Co-Op family”

In any other world it would be called simple theft.

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WFMA is a Special Operating Agency dedicated to fleet service delivery. We manage a fleet of approximately 1,700 vehicles and strive to deliver the highest quality and most cost effective fleet management services to the City of Winnipeg and other public organizations.

We hope that this webpage provides you with valuable information about the Agency and the services that we provide.

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Mar

Government Run US Auto Industy – A Taste of What is To Come

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And this falls under the guise that if  “You think that government can run the automotive industry” in the US

Upper level GM management may of been clueless – but the socialists and their cronies are off the richter scale

Yet they sure they feel that they are entitled to their pay , perks and pensions automatically and without question.

After all they came “from a good Co-op family”

In Winnipeg Canada an audit slammed the city of Winnipeg City Vehicle Agency.  It seems  that the “Winnipeg Fleet Management System”  spent almost 2 $ million on a software system that has not even now been fully implemented, sends to many staff on out of town conferences and in the end needs to be monitored more closely by City of Winnipeg departments.   This all according to a “scathing”  performance audit delivered to city of Winnipeg politicians.

But interestingly – we are responsible blah blah blah , the former head of the agency itself , claims that the auditors do not understand “fleet management” by any means or manner or even what the Winnipeg’s  special operating agencies are supposed to do.

It seems that the “Winnipeg City Vehicle Agency”  spent nearly two million on “Information Technology Consultants” without following through in any manner or means on their recommendations.  Note that this figure fully includes $ 476,000 spent on a fleet management system that unbelievably the agency ?  now  may now longer need – so the auditors evaluate.

In addition the auditors note that the agency gives incomplete performance  information to the City of Winnipeg management itself, does not calculate repair rates , fuel charges and vehicle maintenance costs properly and needs to review staffing practices that result in overall and specific above average training costs

For example in the year of 2008,  the agency spent an average of about $ 1,387 to train each of its employees while other city departments maintained a value of $ 300 a year cost.  It seems that a big component in this figure was a decision (?) to send 14 agency staff to the same training conference.

Seems to have been a highly effective decision by highly paid upper management

In most cases this would be considered sheer ineptitude .  In government it calls for larger departments and effectively rewards poor if not terrible performance

Next will be a course and conference on personal responsibility all with graphs and charts

Reminds one that in Russia everyone had a job , but no one could eat

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Mar

Guess Its Even Worse for Toyota Owners In Japan.inc

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Feeling her Toyota Mark X station wagon lurch forward at a busy intersection, Masako Sakai slammed on the brakes. But the pedal “had gone limp,” she said. Downshifting didn’t seem to work either.

“I tried everything I could think of,” Mrs. Sakai, 64, said, as she recently recalled the accident that happened six months ago.

Her car surged forward nearly 3,000 feet before slamming into a Mercedes Benz and a taxi, injuring drivers in both those vehicles and breaking Mrs. Sakai’s collarbone.

As shaken as she was by the accident, Mrs. Sakai says she was even more surprised by what happened after. She says that Toyota — from her dealer to headquarters — has not responded to her inquiries, and Japanese authorities have been indifferent to her concerns as a consumer.

Mrs. Sakai says the Tokyo Metropolitan Police urged her to sign a statement saying that she pressed the accelerator by mistake — something she strongly denies. She says the police told her she could have her damaged car back to get it repaired if she made that admission. She declined.

The police say it was a misunderstanding and that they kept her car to carry out their investigation.

But veterans of Japan’s moribund consumer rights movement say that Mrs. Sakai, like many Japanese, is the victim of a Japanese establishment that values Japanese business over Japanese consumers, and the lack of consumer protections here.

“In Japan, there is a phrase: if something smells, put a lid on it,” said Shunkichi Takayama, a Tokyo-based lawyer who has handled complaints related to Toyota vehicles.

Toyota has recalled eight million cars outside Japan because of unexpected acceleration and other problems, but has insisted that there are no systemic problems with its cars sold in Japan. The company recalled the Prius for a brake problem earlier this year.

Critics say many companies benefit from Japan’s weak consumer protections. (The country has only one full-time automobile recall investigator, supported by 15 others on limited contracts.)

In a case in the food industry, a meat processor called Meat Hope collapsed in 2008 after revelations that it had mixed pork, mutton and chicken bits into products falsely labeled as pure ground beef, all under the noses of food inspectors.

A 2006 police inquiry into gas water heaters made by the manufacturer Paloma found that a defect had resulted in the deaths of 21 people over 10 years from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Paloma initially insisted that users had tampered with the heaters’ safety device; the company ultimately admitted that the heaters were at fault — and that executives had been aware of a potential problem for more than a decade. Executives are now being charged with professional negligence, and a court verdict is due in May.

When it comes to cars, the rapid growth of the auto industry here and of car ownership in the 1960s and ’70s was accompanied by a spate of fatal accidents. A consumer movement soon emerged among owners of these defective vehicles.

The most active was the Japan Automobile Consumers Union, led by Fumio Matsuda, a former Nissan engineer often referred to as the Ralph Nader of Japan. But the automakers fought back with a campaign discrediting the activists as dangerous agitators. Mr. Matsuda and his lawyer were soon arrested and charged with blackmail. They fought the charges to Japan’s highest court, but lost.

Now, few people are willing to take on the country’s manufacturers at the risk of arrest, Mr. Matsuda said in a recent interview. “The state sided with the automakers, not the consumers,” he said.

It has become difficult for drivers to access even the most elementary data or details on incidents of auto defects, says Hiroko Isomura, an executive at the National Association of Consumer Specialists and a former adviser to the government on auto recalls. “Unfortunately, the Automobile Consumers Union was shut down,” she said. “No groups like that exist any more.”

For the government to order a recall, it must prove that automobiles do not meet national safety standards, which is difficult to do without the automakers’ cooperation. Most recalls are done on a voluntary basis without government supervision.

An examination of transport ministry records by The New York Times found that at least 99 incidents of unintended acceleration or surge in engine rotation had been reported in Toyotas since 2001, of which 31 resulted in some form of collision.

Critics like Mr. Takayama charge that the number of reports of sudden acceleration in Japan would be bigger if not for the way many automakers in Japan, helped by reticent regulators, have kept such cases out of official statistics, and out of the public eye.

In 2008, about 6,600 accidents and 30 deaths were blamed on drivers of all kinds of vehicles mistakenly pushing the accelerator instead of the brakes, according to the Tokyo-based Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis.

But Mr. Takayama has long argued that number includes cases of sudden acceleration. “It has become the norm here to blame the driver in almost any circumstance,” he said.

“Regulators have long accepted the automakers’ assertions at face value,” said Yukiko Seko, a retired lawmaker of the Japan Communist Party who pursued the issue in Parliament in 2002.

The police strongly deny pressuring drivers to accept the blame in any automobile accident. “All investigations into auto accidents are conducted in a fair and transparent way,” the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said in response to an inquiry by The Times.

Figuring out who is really to blame can be hard because of Japan’s lack of investigators.

Japan’s leniency has also meant that automakers here have routinely ignored even some of the safety standards for cars sold in the United States. Until the early 1990s, Japanese cars sold domestically lacked the reinforcing bars in car walls required of all vehicles sold in the United States. Critics say skimping on safety was one way automakers generated profits in Japan to finance their export drive abroad.

A handful of industry critics like Mr. Takayama and Ms. Seko have, over the years, voiced concern over cases of sudden acceleration in Toyota and other cars in Japan. Under scrutiny especially after the introduction of automatic transmission cars in the late 1980s, Toyota recalled five models because a broken solder was found in its electronics system, which could cause unintended acceleration.

In 1988 the government ordered a nationwide study and tests, and urged automakers to introduce a fail-safe system to make sure the brakes always overrode the accelerator. This month, more than 20 years later, Toyota promised to install a brake override system in all its new models.

Meanwhile, Toyota maintains a large share on the Japanese market, with about 30 percent. The Prius gas-electric hybrid remained the top-selling car in Japan in February despite the automaker’s global recalls, figures released Thursday showed.

But Japan’s pro-industry postwar order may be changing.

In 2009, in one of the last administrative moves by the outgoing government, a new consumer affairs agency was set up to better police defective products, unsafe foods and mislabeling.

The new government’s transport minister, Seiji Maehara, has been outspoken against Toyota.

He said last week that he would push to revamp the country’s oversight of the auto industry, including adding more safety investigators. The government has also said it was examining 38 complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas reported from 2007 through 2009, as well as 96 cases in cars produced by other automakers.

Toyota continues to deny there are problems with unintended acceleration in Japan.

“Yes, there have been incidents of unintended acceleration in Japan,” Shinichi Sasaki, Toyota’s quality chief, said at a news conference last week. “But we believe we have checked each incident and determined that there was no problem with the car,” he said.

Mrs. Sakai said she has called and visited her Toyota dealer, as well as Toyota Motor itself, but has not received a response.

A Toyota spokeswoman, Mieko Iwasaki, confirmed that the automaker had been contacted about complaints of a crash caused by sudden acceleration in September. She said, however, that she could not divulge details of how the company handled each case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/global/06toyota.html?pagewanted=print

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Mar

Sign of The Times – Mr Obama – GM Plans to Reinstate 600 + GM Dealerships

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General Motors, seeking to avoid a protracted legal battle as it focuses on increasing sales, said on Friday that it planned to reinstate 661 dealerships cut last year as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.

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Larry Noga working last May at the Balzekas Chrysler dealership in Chicago. The dealership was slated to lose its franchise.

That is more than half of the roughly 1,100 dealers who filed to challenge G.M.’s terminations through an arbitration process established by Congress.

G.M. said that it was calling and sending letters to the dealers being allowed to stay open and that they would receive notification by Monday.

“By doing this, we save a lot of time, energy and dollars, saving us and dealers from going through what could be a very long arbitration process,” Jim Bunnell, G.M.’s general director of dealer network support, said in a conference call with reporters.

Mark L. Reuss, the president of G.M. North America, said the dealers to be reinstated were chosen based on business criteria, not because they were likely to win in arbitration or to put up a costly fight.

“We’re trying to do the right thing for our dealerships, for G.M. and for the taxpayer, quite frankly,” Mr. Reuss said.

The arbitration process was established by Congress after its members were inundated by complaints from G.M. dealers in their districts.

But as its sales fell last year by about 50 percent, the company said it needed to thin out its dealership network so it and the remaining dealers could be more profitable.

Congress has made no similar demands that G.M. revive its factories.

Representative Steven C. LaTourette, a Republican of Ohio who helped establish the arbitration process, said the loss of dealerships affected individual communities. “You’re talking almost 40,000 people going back to work, potentially. The car dealer, in many cases, supports the Little League and supports the Chamber.” By forcing the dealerships to close, he said, “you’ve destroyed the fabric of some communities.” G.M. softened its opposition to the dealer cuts after Edward E. Whitacre Jr. became chief executive in December. It had more than 6,000 dealers before bankruptcy and now could have close to 5,000 when the arbitrations conclude. It had previously set a target of fewer than 4,000, but Mr. Bunnell said on Friday that the reinstatements would not make G.M.’s dealership network too large.

G.M. had been concentrating on consolidating its operations to match its diminished market share, but Mr. Whitacre has pushed people at all levels of G.M. to focus primarily on selling more vehicles. Having more dealerships could help him accomplish that goal.

The dealers that G.M. is allowing to stay open will have 10 days to review and sign the letter of intent they will receive from the company, then 60 days to fulfill new requirements, including maintaining adequate capitalization and financing.

Meanwhile, 418 dealerships are still fighting to be reinstated at Chrysler, the other Detroit automaker to go through bankruptcy protection last year. Chrysler forced 789 dealerships to close last June.

“To some degree there’s been some precedent set,” said Michael Boudreau, a director with a consulting firm, O’Keefe & Associates in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. “The Chrysler dealers will probably dig in their heels and fight a little bit harder now.”

Many of the terminated G.M. dealers never announced their status publicly and continued to operate much like other dealers except that they were not allowed to order new vehicles from factories. Still, their inability to sell the most popular models since last May undoubtedly cost them customers and hurt G.M.’s overall sales.

In February, the Ford Motor Company outsold G.M. by 471 vehicles. If each of the dealers now being reinstated had been operating normally and sold just one additional vehicle last month, G.M. would have stayed in first place.

Separately Friday, G.M. appointed Patricia F. Russo, a former chief executive of the French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent, as its new lead outside director. Under a new bylaw, Ms. Russo, one of 10 people the Treasury Department appointed to G.M.’s board after the carmaker emerged from bankruptcy in July, was given the authority to convene special board meetings as needed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/06dealers.html

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Mar

Hope or Hopeless – Talk About a Useless Commuter !

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Few places are more emblematic of the rise of American manufacturing, and its gradual decline, than this once-bustling industrial suburb of Dayton — within sight of the hill from which the Wright Brothers first tried to fly their innovative contraption, even before Kitty Hawk.

That was a century ago, and in time big stretches of the city were covered in factories. During World War I, more than 3,400 warplanes came off an assembly line in Moraine. The earliest electric refrigerators were mass-produced here, then cars and S.U.V.’s, and then suddenly very little.

In the weeks between Barack Obama’s election and his inauguration, General Motors closed the last big factory in Moraine, a four-million-square-foot plant that churned out S.U.V.’s. The 4,200 men and women who had worked there before the recession — representing nearly 2 percent of the work force in Moraine and the surrounding communities — lost their jobs and their wages, which were north of $20 an hour.

The president never sought to reopen the factory, even after the federal government became controlling shareholder in G.M. during the auto bailout. What he has done instead is try to ease some of the pain by sending an ambassador as a salve for the community’s wounds.

The ambassador, Edward B. Montgomery, executive director of the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers, has made 23 trips so far to troubled cities like Moraine. In lightning forays, he flies out of Washington in the morning, offers hope and aid, and returns to the capital in the evening. He concedes that he is not bringing jobs, but acting as a facilitator to help pummeled communities gain access to various government funds.

“The people are focused on how they can use their assets; they are not trying to capture G.M. coming back, but to go forward and build a new base,” Mr. Montgomery said in an interview after visiting Moraine last week.

During that visit, he told a gathering of local and state officials, “there may be some nontraditional, untapped sources of federal funds that we can help you tap.” He travels with an entourage of a dozen top officers from federal agencies, each with money to offer and an explanation of how to tap the funds.

“We are a means of coordinating across the agencies,” Mr. Montgomery explained, “and improving access to funding.”

On his travels he has helped to channel millions of dollars from the stimulus package and other government pools. He does not know, he says, just how many millions. At many of the stops, particularly in Ohio, which went for George W. Bush in 2004 and just barely for Obama in the last presidential election, there is an implicit political message in this largess. It goes something like this: Stick with the president and the Democratic Party, and while we cannot bring back mass production with its large-scale employment, we can help you in the transition to other sources of income and jobs.

“What they are doing is all well and good,” said Daniel Luria, research director of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center. “But if you are one of the people in distress, what you really want is a national manufacturing strategy that insures that the share of what is made here does not continue to fall.”

Mr. Montgomery describes that thinking as unwarranted interference in the private sector, and counterproductive. “The question of whether you should order private companies to locate in these communities; that is not a prescription for success,” he said.

His approach has produced results that are hard to measure. He has visited Flint, Mich., for example, three times in the last year, and the unemployment rate remains above 25 percent. On the other hand, several hundred additional people are enrolled in job training as a result of stimulus money that Mr. Montgomery steered to Flint, according to the mayor, Dayne Walling. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving more quickly than it otherwise would have, the mayor said, to clear former factory sites for other commercial use.

“That was a thicket that Montgomery’s people helped us to navigate,” the mayor said.

Mr. Montgomery, 54, a labor economist by training who served as a deputy labor secretary in the Clinton administration, describes Moraine as a particularly good candidate for help because, in response to the G.M. plant closing, the city quickly put together an economic development plan that laid out, in advance of his visit, a transition away from autos.

The new target companies are not easy to lure, however. They are frequently sought by other communities in similar straits, including next-door Dayton, which lost NCR’s big headquarters last June. Renewable energy (companies that assemble wind turbines or solar panels) is high on the list of preferred industries. So is aerospace. Companies engaged in developing technology for health care would be good. The goal is to house new arrivals in Moraine’s vast, empty factories.

“If we are fortunate enough that private investors purchase the factories, we would work with the new owners to parcel out their use,” said Michael W. Davis, the city’s director of economic development.

Mr. Davis said that the 360-acre G.M. site, which includes the old S.U.V. plant and what’s left of an adjoining Delphi auto parts factory, is now drawing offers of $14 million or less, although the property is appraised by the city at $69 million. As for those who would actually occupy the space, leasing or purchasing parcels from new owners, “we have two nibbles so far,” Mr. Davis said. One group would “carve out” 10 acres for a truck terminal and the other eight acres for a marketing firm.

“We have to demonstrate that this is a region worth investing in, and we have to do that soon,” Mr. Davis said. “We have taken a 30 percent hit to Moraine’s tax revenues just in the last year.”

The trauma is evident driving through Moraine, a city of 7,000 with a daytime population of 20,000 in its heyday, when the G.M. plant was drawing thousands of workers from surrounding communities. That daytime population is fewer than 13,000 today, and the unemployment rate in the county has risen to 12 percent, from less than 7 percent in 2007.

The bungalow-style homes are often in disrepair and few are freshly painted. Streets and sidewalks downtown are nearly empty, even in midday. And many of the retail stores in the stately buildings around the town square are vacant, their darkened display windows like windows in mausoleums.

“The G.M. factory did not close all at once,” Mr. Davis said. “It went from three shifts to two shifts to one shift to none.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/economy/06stimulus.html?th&emc=th

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Obama Auto Industry 101

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A most interesting article when it comes to Mr. Obama’s
Bail Out”  of the American auto industry.

Was it a bail out or the case of an arsonist speaking to the owner’s of the Winnipeg garment factory after a long weekend fire – a lightening strike so to speak.  Or was it a case of “hit and run”.

An interesting well researched article or series of articles in a book that more than proves the point that it was a  Soros left wing type agenda from before the very beginning when Obama came on the scene or was perhaps appointed to be the front -

Why Obama Bailed Out Auto Makers

From his second autobiography, The Audacity Of Hope – Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream, pp 99-100:

Chapter Five – Opportunity

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… So far, the Bush Administration’s energy policy has been focused on subsidies to big oil companies and expanded drilling—coupled with token investments in the development of alternative fuels. This approach might make economic sense if America harbored plentiful and untapped oil supplies that could meet its needs (and if oil companies weren’t experiencing record profits). But such supplies don’t exist. The United States has 3 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We use 25 percent of the world’s oil. We can’t drill our way out of the problem.

What we can do is create renewable, cleaner energy sources for the twenty-first century. Instead of subsidizing the oil industry, we should end every single tax break the industry currently receives and demand that 1 percent of the revenues from oil companies with over $1 billion in quarterly profits go toward financing alternative energy research and the necessary infrastructure. Not only would such a project pay huge economic, foreign policy, and environmental dividends—it could be the vehicle by which we train an entire new generation of American scientists and engineers and a source of new export industries and high-wage jobs…

Take the issue of fuel-efficiency standards. Had we steadily raised those standards over the past two decades, when gas was cheap, U.S. automakers might have invested in new, fuel-efficient models instead of gas-guzzling SUVs—making them more competitive as gas prices rose. Instead, we’re seeing Japanese competitors run circles around Detroit. Toyota plans to sell one hundred thousand of their popular Priuses in 2006, while GM’s hybrid won’t even hit the market until 2007. And we can expect companies like Toyota to outcompete U.S automakers in the burgeoning Chinese market since China already has higher fuel-efficiency standards than we do.

The bottom line is that fuel-efficient cars and alternative fuels like E85, a fuel formulated with 85 percent ethanol, represent the future of the auto industry. It is a future American car companies can attain if we start making some tough choices now. For years U.S. automakers and the UAW have resisted higher fuel-efficiency standards because retooling costs money, and Detroit is already struggling under huge retiree health-care costs and stiff competition. So during my first year in the Senate I proposed legislation I called “Health Care for Hybrids.” The bill makes a deal with U.S. automakers: In exchange for federal financial assistance in meeting the health-care costs of retired autoworkers, the Big Three would reinvest these savings into developing more fuel-efficient vehicles…

This was written back in 2006.

source:  http://sweetness-light.com/archive/why-obama-bailed-out-the-auto-makers

One only had to listen over the years to NPR with their tales of their visions of the great socialist agenda of the President of the US calling in the car company execs to dicate to them to make fuel efficient cars only just as President Rosevelt in World War II telling or informing them that they had no choice as to make tanks , rather than automobilies ” as this was the law”.  It was to be a stacked deck – for your “own good” whether you saw so or not.

It is amazing the socialist mindset .  It is not unlike a fundamentalist Christian preacher telling his group to go after those who had left the fold -  as in the analogy that the sheperd’s role is to protect his flock for their own good.  Those saved in the end will be grateful in the end.

Look at poor Mr. Wagonner the former head of G.M.

Here the Huffington Post speaks in terms of President Obama “asking”  Rick Waggoner to step down from his post as head of G.M. “The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said. ‘

Rick Wagoner, GM CEO, Will Step Down At Obama’s Behest – UPDATE: The Obama administration asked GM CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, according to numerous reports. According to Politico: The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of … UPDATE: The Obama administration …

Asked  ?  It  is like being asked at a stgum weddiing as the unwilling groom at the festivities or smiling politely at a concentration camp guard at Aushwitz or speaking defferentially at a Canada Customs minor agent , with little training but the whip of beauracy and no accountability behind them .

What is amazing about the whole situation is that the people in charge have zero business and especially automotive industry experience are calling the shots.  Secondly these people are actually against the whole idea of the industry and its products – and believe all should take the bus . or walk to work.  Even at best the belief is for electic cars that are plugged in at night. Hello – where is the electric power and energy going to come from.  California already has brownouts.  Coal energy is being decried ,  more nuclear power plants are out of the question.  Hello earth. Then again perhaps it is the rote of the tree huggers to shut this all down.

Yet none of the people in charge live this way.  Amy Goodman of the NPR show Democracy Now jets arond the country for presentations and meetings.  Does she walk , take a horse driven carriage or at the worst take a shared greyhound bus ?  Al Gore of the “Green Scene’ and “Planet Warming’  jets around the world in the world’s most inefficient corporate jet

HolyCoast.com: Toxic Gore Stays Away From Capitol Cap-and-Tax Fight – This wasn’t about saving the ozone layer from the exhaust fumes of Gore’s private jet. It was about not spooking certain Democrats who are already afraid of what will happen in their districts as a result of this bill. …

Obama and his family celebrated his winning and future coronation with an empty Boing full size jet with only his family and bodyguards on board this almost empty gas / keroscene eating form of transport .

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hard-hitting LA Times piece: Obama date … – The Obamas’ outing in New York — with jet and helicopter rides, chic dinner and play, and without the kids — is more than most of us can hope for. But their relationship can be a model. Now Obama is saving marriages. Wow, he’s so talented./ ….. The Euro leaders have Obama pegged as having a suit as empty as it seems to be. FT reports stories the fawning american media can’t share. seven on June 5, 2009 at 11:26 PM. Queen Michell is slummin in france right now. …

When will it all end.  What a fantasy.  Hopefully sooner rather than later.

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First keep your tires at the correct tire pressure is more difficult in winter because of the extreme changes in temperature during the harsh Winnipeg Manitoba Canadian winter – especially during the harsh Canadian winter in January. This is even more so if you make the change from a warm heated garage – or even parking in downtown Winnipeg at a heated garage during the day and then going out into the cold climes.

A simple increase or decrease in 8 degrees f. in temperature can change tire pressure one pound . Hence if you check your car’s tire pressure when the temperature is 70 and then drive out in subzero weather , that you will find that as the tire cools it may be seriously under-inflated – risking damage to the sidewalls of the tires.

Hence even though it is less convenient , it is always best to check tire pressure outside in the cold weather. For full accurate results , it is best to let the car sit outside for a while.

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Toyota for the Long Term

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Toyota Toyota Toyota the debacle continues

In the financial field the question becomes as an investment with all of the pummeling of Toyota stock is Toyota as an auto brand and stock still or is it a “wise idea” or a “Wise investment”

No doubt Toyota in an advertising or marketing sense is branded and has certainly earned its branding as an auto brand in and on the automotive marketplace

People used to buy GM General Motors vehicle due to resale that according to automotive industry sales veteran long time analyst and Monday morning quarterback as to why to purchase a GM vehicle as opposed to other domestic automotive manufacturers – Chrysler , Ford and at one time American Motors AMC products that your vehicle always commanded good and better resale value than most since “someone always wanted to buy your car.”

The same could be said for Toyota and its sister upscale automotive product Lexus

GM may have lost this cache due to ego and the inertia in the auto retail and resale markets that it thought was given by the creator itself , and could be taken advantage of abused forever.

Toyota , up until now with its latest problems , felt it was in the same situation

True the Toyota name has been sullied from its high point

Still it will take a great deal more on the product and public relations side to downsize this brand and branding at this point

It can be said that no matter what the industry or its domestic competitors say Toyota at this point has earned and still commands great consumer respect and loyalty in the automotive marketplace

Look on any American highway – especially as well the southern US states for the incidence of Toyota products on the highways and freeways and you will see in action that the greatest percentage of automobiles that are the trusted product that Americans are driving as their most reliable vehicle to be trusted in the more demanding driving on the highway and travels are Japanese – not American vehicles and of these Toyota yields the highest ratio.

It might be said that no matter what the automotive press and GM top auto execs say – that when you see a Ukrainian baba with a babushka driving a Toyota Corolla down a north end Winnipeg street

you know that GM as an automotive market and marketing powerhouse has lost market share.

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The Toyota Pedal / Supplier Debacle Full Steam Ahead

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And discussions and holdouts go on with the Toyota sticky gas pedals

The president of the Japanese Ford equivalent Toyota (Mr. Toyoda)  apologized to consumers in Japanese cultural form “The president of Toyota issued his first apology Friday as his troubled automaker expanded its recall to include Europe and it rushed to complete its strategy to modify or replace millions of accelerator pedals.”

Meanwhile, the supplier whose Canadian factory made the questionable pedals insisted that Toyota’s remedies would not address the episodes in which drivers claim their vehicles accelerated out of control.

Yet while the explanation deals only with example with Toyota Matrix’s and Pontiac Vibe’s as one model in the list – to the 2009  and 2010 production model years these vehicle and reports of the unintended acceleration issues go back before that stated date

Even though the apology has been made the Canadian manufacturer of the pedals is rather dubious and as well unwilling to take the fall as noted in today’s New York Times

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Meanwhile, the supplier whose Canadian factory made the questionable pedals insisted that Toyota’s remedies would not address the episodes in which drivers claim their vehicles accelerated out of control.

General Motors, whose Pontiac Vibe was among the vehicles recalled because it was built through a joint venture with Toyota, said late Friday that it had received “several complaints of alleged sticking accelerator pedals” in the last week. G.M. said that the vehicles “were safely brought to a stop” and that it was looking into the reports.

In Davos, Switzerland, Akio Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota’s founder, told a Japanese broadcaster that he was “deeply sorry” for the recalls, which have prompted the company to stop selling eight models in North America.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/business/30toyota.html?th&emc=th

Furher:  The pedal manufacturer, the CTS Corporation in Elkhart, Ind., has begun shipping replacement pedals to be installed at Toyota plants. Mr. Michels said those pedals would be available to consumers if needed, however.

Read the following paragraph carefully.  The parts supplier in this case seems not to be buying the company line:

CTS, in a statement, took issue with Toyota’s claim that the recall was made in part because partly depressed pedals could become stuck. CTS said that reports of unintended acceleration in some Toyota vehicles went back as far as 1999 but that it did not begin making pedals for Toyota until the 2005 model year.

“CTS believes that the rare slow return pedal phenomenon, which may occur in extreme environmental conditions, should absolutely not be linked with any sudden unintended acceleration incidents,” the statement said. CTS said it was not aware of any crashes or injuries caused by one of its pedals becoming stuck.

Mr. Michels replied that sticking pedals, and pedals that were caught in floor mats, were the two main reasons for accidents. “There’s a combination of things that can be contributing to the complaints. We have had sticking pedals and it’s from one supplier,” he said.

He added: “I don’t want to get into any kind of a disagreement with CTS. Our position on suppliers has always been that Toyota is responsible for the cars.”

As can be said stay tuned.  And 1 / 100 of 1 /100 % of 1% a lot of cars sold is still a big number

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