Are Automotive Incentives Running out of Gas?

Pick up the paper any day of the week and you'll find another story about layoffs in the automotive industry: Ford Motor Co. recently laid off of 150 to 400 workers in St. Paul, Minn., and reported that it would offer early retirement packages to hundreds of workers at its Wixom, Mich., assembly plant as part of plans to close the factory early next year. General Motors Corp.'s CEO Rick Wagoner made headlines with his planned cut of 30,000 employees.