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Which is exactly what will happen. The large cars you'd actually want to drive will be dolled up with wood inlays and 34 way power seats and similar effeminizations and then sold by Cadillac or BMW or Lexus starting at $79,900.

Meanwhile, the cars on the Chevy and Toyota lots you can actually afford will be small hatchbacks and wagons ala Europe.

The era of regular Americans being able to have a big comfortable vehicle - a SUV, a truck, a Chrysler 300 type car - are over.

And that's what the muscle car was. A big fast car for a regular guy.

Thank the Democrats.
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If you look around you, prices are already starting to creep up on everything from bread to milk, eggs, etc.

A) Oil is hitting $ 100/Barrel - "After 2011 we could be in for serious trouble"
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20071118/ai_n21115589
B) 19 Feb. IOB Iranian Oil Bourse opening Non-U$D exchange
C) Gold close to $ 1000/Ounce by end of 2008. $ 2000/Ounce in the near future
D) The US has 8,133.5 TN Gold Reserves which account for about 76% of its total reserve. Germany 3,400 TN, France 2,750.
E) Debt for the war is approaching $ 1 Trillion by some estimates
F) Coal hits $ 300/TN http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?m=200802
G) 2006 Peak Oil production 81 MB/day http://www.energywatchgroup.org/fileadmin/global/pdf/EWG_Oilreport_10-2007.pdf
H) India Tata $2,500 car
I) Europe surpasses US auto sales > 13 M

http://www.odac-info.org/news_releases/documents/ASPO6-PeakBy2012.htm
http://www.energyshortage.com/e/index.html
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