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[Great Lakes Echo » Michigan] Michigan mpg gains from clunkers program lag nation | Great Lakes Echo: According to a Detroit News analysis, Michiganians who swapped old vehicles for vouchers worth up to $4500 toward the purchase of a more fuel-sipping model, averaged a gain of 8.27 mpg, compared with 9.2 mpg nationally.

[detnews.com - Metro-State] State road repair funds take big hit | detnews.com | The Detroit News: While road funding has slipped, so have road conditions, Ledbetter said. He cited a 2008 report from the Michigan Asset Management Council that found 25 percent of Michigan roads were in poor condition in 2007, a number that increased to 32 percent in 2008.

[DomeMagazine.com] Bordering on Greatness | DomeMagazine.com: Editor’s note: In this increasingly global economy, Michigan’s most important “foreign” relationship is close at hand, with neighboring Canada. This is the first in a regular series of features in which Dome explores major political, policy and cultural issues between Michigan and Canada and the importance of this relationship to the state’s future.

[Automotive Blogs] Cash for Clunkers revealed Detroit's Strengths, Weaknesses ...: While more than 81 percent of Michiganians exchanged their “Clunkers” for domestically manufactured vehicles, it seems that the rest of the country was not as bullish about Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler. Well the Cash For Clunkers program was designed to trade in your car for a "more" fuel efficient vehicle.

[Dan Mulhern - Everday Leadership » All Posts] Michigan at a crossroads : Dan Mulhern - Everday Leadership: How important are some taxes right now, when weighed against police, fire, schools and basic health care?  The legislature and governor have reduced our business tax burden so that according to the Tax Foundation (a non-partisan research group) Michigan has gone from the 28th best business tax burden to the 19th best.  To hear Bishop and Company talk we’re the worst.  And to hear their pure ideological stand on taxes, you’d think these cuts would surely have pushed us ahead of other states.  Yet we are still worst in unemployment.  Why? The driving reason is not taxes, but our struggle to survive in a global economy, that is increasing productivity, decreasing jobs, and driving our wages and benefits lower.  Is now the time to renege on the bipartisan Michigan Promise that would allow every Michigan child in this capitalist democracy to get a community college education?

[News from www.theoaklandpress.com] MSU report: College labor market has hit bottom - The Oakland ...: I thought maybe when I was younger that older people were just ignorant and being unfair about the whole situation, I think they were smart and being protective of our future. Now its out of hand, they fought hard with lawsuits and nobody helped them.

[HybridCars.com] A Rough Week for Hybrids | Hybrid Cars: Another key point one should realize is that if one buys a 60K vehicle they are not looking at efficiency as a main priority in fact they factor in absorption of higher fuel costs. Also luxury vehicles are some of the most inefficient cars out there.

[The Lede] Live Blogging: Automakers on the Hill, Day 2 - The Lede Blog ...: Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat from New York, wants to know the effect on the economy if the companies collapse, in specific dollar amounts, and is not happy with the vague answers she gets, regarding the many jobs that would be lost. “You’ve got to learn how to speak to the American people,”

[News from Michigan State University] State residents view energy costs as long-term problem | MSU News ...: Nearly half (46.4 percent) of Michigan residents are considering making changes to their homes, such as adding insulation or a more efficient heating system, as a way to keep energy costs down. And more than 42 percent said that, very often , they make decisions about where they do business, go shopping or go on vacation because of the cost of fuel, while 36 percent said they sometimes consider the cost of fuel before carrying out these activities.

[Latest LinkBlogs from pyramid.blog-city.com] The Collapse of Detroit: Ground Zero for the Globalist's ...: If by Detroit you mean the auto industry, there is some merit in the idea that they were way too slow in embracing fuel economy standards, etc., but they were the last remaining free industry in America, one that took care of People and gave many jobs and the transportation vehicle to travel these great lands, which as Alex points, out, may not exist for much longer with the downfall, police state, and sale of our roads to checkpoint corridors.

[Capitol Chronicles - Susan J. Demas] Michigan paved with short-term thinking | Capitol Chronicles ...: As far as trucks being more flexible, well I'd rather drive a 28 or 30 foot truck from the rail yard to deliver the prepackaged freight to the MALL than a monstrous 65 foot plus (god forbid you have some sort of HUGE sleeper) rig and MAYBE not even be able to get into the loading dock because the building was build wrong for it.

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