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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dealers should sell alternative fuels

Sometimes when we are looking for something, the answer is in front of us. If car dealerships are going to embrace alternative fuels, they must make them available at the dealerships. Instead of spending millions on advertising to get people in the door, they could offer gasoline or hydrogen at a savings to the consumer. [SUB]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dealers are tuned in to absorption figures

Keith Crain must be living on another planet if he thinks that today's car dealers are not conscious of absorption and absorption percentage (“Time to go back to the basics,” April 7).It appears on Page 4 of General Motors dealers' financial statements, for example. [SUB]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Irvin was smart, friendly, helpful

Everything John K. Teahen Jr. said about Bob Irvin in his March 24 column is true and worthy of one heck of a guy in our business. I started in this business in 1954, and I found Bob to be not only intelligent automotively but a great guy you could talk to and with. [SUB]