I would assume that as bad as the current economy is and the pending elections, belts are tightening everywhere. I am certain that most of us here do not earn a living at it, and it is more or less reduced to hobby status. I personally have been stashing for the holidays already, as being in the steel industry it is just a matter of time until business catches up with the automakers. It is an 8 year cycle with two of those years being painfully slow....