I never thought I would ever be in agreement with the Senate Republican minority on a General Motors (GM) bailout. GM has for decades been building cars that American’s do not want. While gas and oil prices have consistently risen year after year, GM has always remained top heavy in SUVs and pick up trucks with sub par gas mileage. It feels as if there was a conspiracy between the American automotive industry and big oil to help ensure America remained dependent on foreign oil. GM could have led the world into a new era with the EV1 a decade ago. Yet here we are again, with the similar problem: how to keep the automotive worker employed. Keeping the EV1 alive and ushering in an era of petroleum free vehicles would have supposedly decimated the automotive repair industry by eliminating manufactures and retailers that provide parts and services for internal combustion engines. Rather than destroy its bread and butter industry, GM removed all but a few cars from the roads and continued down its failure proven road of gas hungry muscle cars and trucks. It is infuriating that GM has the gall to ask the American tax payer to foot the bill so it can continue to proceed misguided. I do not believe they are viable. I do not believe loaning money to Chrysler in 1980 was a success either. They too are right back where they were almost 30 years ago as will GM be right back where it is now. America has always been a nation that has adapted and risen to the challenges presented. This is a capitalist/Darwinian society. GM should be allowed to fail so the company can be reborn under another name with new management. Like GM will have to adapt and change course, the Detroit area worker will probably have to learn a new trick or two to pay the bills.