"Hopefully any responses will be well thought out, realistic and not the knee jerk, thoughtless, "I hate greedy oil companies", "corporations are evil", "George Bush is an idiot" type of screed."

Ouch! Thats no fun!Ok,...I won't....things are fairly good here, the couple of guys that I know that sell rods have been moving street rods and the muscle cars have been sitting. The cars with big motors are sitting and the cruisers are selling. Our economy here is good with the flux of people moving in. I still am feeling the crunch alot more as it seems everything day to day here is going up fast and it cost me double a day to operate than it did a year ago. I think for alot of working stiffs, they feel it too and are building thier own cars instead of buying one thats ready to go.