Toyota just announced its plug-in hybrid is ready for road testing.

This potential product could be a huge step forward for America and one giant leap backwards for American auto manufacturers. Sure, Ford and GM are promising to have the same product available by 2010, but if you believe that I have stocks in The Big Three I’d like to sell you. We’ve heard it before and they aren’t able to deliver. Meanwhile, Toyota and Honda are gaining market share faster then a Corvette can accelerate on 795 at 2 a.m.

At the same time Rep John Dingell. (D-Mich), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is fighting his party’s effort to increase auto mileage standards.

I can appreciate his effort to fight regulation. Yet it’s laughable how the Japanese are eating the Big Three’s lunch by creating more fuel efficient cars, which the Big Three and its political protectors are fighting. GM and Ford will continue to ride their gas guzzling SUV’s off the cliff.

So, what’s Jewish about this?

The plug-in hybrids will get much better gas mileage then the regular version, and therefore will lessen our need for foreign oil. Not too far off will be a plug-in that runs on ethanol. Japanese companies will come up with this before American ones.

Meanwhile, in case you missed it this week:

Hezbollah announced it has fully rearmed after last summer’s war against Israel, thanks to Iran. And Iran is building underground tunnels, allegedly to prevent the U.S. and/or Israel attack planes from bombing its large, underground nuclear arms preparing infrastructure.

Now it seems that buying American will be anti-Israel and anti-American. That’s because the oil money we spend is being used to fund killing our soldiers in Iraq and readying terrorists to kill more Israelis.

Folks, we don’t have 10 years to reduce our oil consumption. Let Dingell protect our auto industry all the way to bankruptcy; I’ll continue to buy pro-American/Israeli security Toyotas.

I hope they outperform and cost less than the hybrids that Toyota and Honda have been putting forth. They had to cut production, because of low sales. Until these hybrids are more economical and perform more like cars that the American public are used too, they will continue to buy foreign oil.
Never mind the idea of drilling for our own oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Anwar then, eh Andrew?