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PODCAST: Letters to the Editor – May 17, 2007 Obama’s misstep, Volt or Blue Devil, and a TCC oddfellow. What’s going on in Detroit on fuel economy? What’s the best General Motors publicity campaign on wheels? And why are the French suddenly our favorite people in the world again? Listen up to the latest podcast of TheCarConnection.com’s letters to the editor, where this week, we’ll talk about the Obama machine’s misstep on fuel economy, the rise in gas prices and what America should be doing about them, and whether Chevrolet’s Volt or the Blue Devil corvette is the GM halo car. Our readers will tell us why the editor’s a “dysfunctional Bushie,” why we all need to “stop panicking,” and lastly, why we all need to “get off our Viagra and Cialis” and stop driving while drunk—that’s courtesy TCC’s newest and certainly oddest reader.

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GM executives may be stunned, but it’s no surprise to anyone else that the automaker has scored a big hit with the three minicars it unveiled at the New York Auto Show, last month, the Chevrolet Beat, Groove and Trax. So, will the automaker actually get it right this time and, with fuel prices soaring, give the go to put one or more of the “triplets” into production?

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It doesn’t take an Oliver Stone to question whether there’s a conspiracy to keep nudging gasoline prices higher and higher.  We’re made as hell, but we’re likely to keep taking it, too, as the petro-giants keep testing the limit’s of the American market’s elasticity. Paul A. Eisenstein, Publisher of TheCarConnection.com, has this report.

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