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The attention from the peak has had some nicely positive side effects that outlived the peak itself.
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Some of those side effects, unimaginable a year ago...
Pontiac, dead
Saab, Saturn, Hummer, sold or hoping to be sold
Chrysler owned (and I mean
owned) by Fiat (!)
GM in bankruptcy, ten of thousands unemployed
I own a bunch of car company woes (as a stockholder/tax payer)
And I
still don't have my flying cars...
Filled up the Insight at a Chevron station/truckstop off I-20 in Longview, Texas on Thursday... An overalled Good Ol' Boy (picture him in your mind... yes, yes,
that's him), came over and said "What kinda mileage you get in that thing?" so I invited him to look in my cabin at the readout (595 miles, 60.1 MPG after mostly 70 mph driving)... and I thought he was going to spit his false teeth out in my nice clean car. He ambled back to his Dually and drove off in shame, probably going home to kick his basset hound for no good reason...
