Like I've said before: The government needs to take the pressure off of automakers to develop more fuel efficient vehicles and put that pressure on big oil to come up with cleaner alternative fuels and start getting them into the hands of consumers. That's what's going to help this country more than bullying the Big 3 into building cars they don't have the finances for as well as the American people who won't have enough money to purchase (can't lease domestics anymore) these more fuel efficient vehicles with all the costly fuel saving technologies. It's not cars that are the problem, it's the stuff they run on.
You'd think that's common sense, but common sense ain't so common.