Some good news for MI

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/business/27plant.html?ref=business

The question is will Michigan finally learn from its mistakes and start lowering taxes for everyone else, or are they still going to just rasp out a few dying breaths of intelligence as the state continues to succumb to what might be called Bureaucracy Induced Alzheimer's?

Michigan is also getting a Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center that will employee 1,200 between Ann Arbor and Detroit.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601209&sid=a6I6cBbmkDW4

Ford gets $5.9 Billion to improve gas mileage.

(Strikes Ford, Nissan, Tesla Motors from short list of purchasable vehicles, pending repayment of loans, and confirmation of viability)

Though if Ford's play pans out it is possible that the sleeping giant of the United States has stirred once again and accidentally rolled over the Middle East. Ford is projecting to be able to save 2.5 Billion Gallons of Gasoline (about 50 Million Barrels) by 2016 if they succeed in improving their fuel efficiency.

That means demand for oil will drop by about 140,000 bbl/day just from Ford's attempts to improve fuel efficiency. Add onto that the other vehicles that are coming onto the market that are more fuel efficient and perhaps the US will be able to achieve self-sufficiency in Oil. Especially if Obama would do something intelligent like letting us drill here.

we should just go to all diesel engines at 50 miles per gallon.
bio diesel can be made out of moss that is grow in water and double in production ever 24 hour period.