Do hybrid vehicle analysts receive payoffs?

A new study indicates that if hybrids achieve 11% of the U.S. market by 2009, as many as 207,000 American jobs could be lost.

The past presidential election has demonstrated that unbiased journalism has become relatively rare in politics.

Is the same true in automotive media?

If 200,000 American automotive jobs are lost, would that affect American automotive analysts?

Instead of naysaying hybrids for the past five years, perhaps automotive analysts should have been warning Detroit and America that if our fatal obsession with gas-guzzlers didn't change, the American automotive industry might never recover and hundreds of thousands of Americans would lose their jobs.

Unfortunately, too many analysts appear too comfortable with the status quo.

One would hope automotive analysts would try harder to predict the future, rather than trying to maintain the past. But who cares about the future when fat advertising dollars are here today?