Quote Originally Posted by beth h View Post
While I think that thousands of autoworkers losing their jobs is awful, I can't pretend I'm shocked about any of this.

We all have the ability to make choices in our lives: how and where to live and what to do for a living, and how we get around.

I have lived car-free for nearly 20 years. I have watched the high cost of driving continue to be subsidized (and therefore largely camouflaged) by government. Instead I would prefer that the government began subsidizing mass transit, mixed-income housing and job re-training, smart-growth and urban density, and smaller, more localized economies of scale for everyone.
Howdy, it's 29 years car-free for myself so far. I was starting to feel like the car-free existentialist elder in a forest of cyclists-car drivers.

Canada is helping GM with the bail-out..supposedly to assist in their pension. Whatever. It's alot of taxpayers' moolah $.

Will be interesting to see if these big car manufacturers will be able to reinvent themselves to a completely new type of car. Meanwhile there have been recent documentary TV news footage on glimmerings of the electric car start-ups...but that needs a very different infrastructure to power up for some of our long North American driving distances.