Do you remember your first car?Mine was a Plymouth Fury - used of course - that literally purred when you turned the key. It rode like it was on air, could comfortably fit 6 people and when you put the pedal to the metal, it leapt forward like it was shot out of a gun.It also spit out enough carbon monoxide to choke an elephant and got about 10 mpg in the city.Life is a series of tradeoffs and the Fury's and other great cars of the past went the way of the Dodo bird because changing attitudes and the relentless rise in fuel prices caused us to rethink our modes of transportation.Never letting opportunity slip by in a crisis, the Obama administration is about to once again revolutionize the auto industry. In fact, it will become so revolutionary that no one will be able to afford new cars nor will they like the cars that they will be forced to choose from.The government is in the car business now and to that end, Obama released new fuel efficiency and emissions standards that are so...(Read Full Post)