Despite rising fuel prices, devastating weather events and a difficult market environment, Chrysler Group products continued to deliver quarterly gains in market share, retail sales and shipments.

A significant part of the solution to our energy, environment and national security issues can be homegrown.

We're going to have bookend events with the weather, because it was perfect the first year here in '99. I don't want to jinx it, but if the last two years were 2 or 3 on a scale of 1 to 10, we're probably looking at an 8 or 9.

We typically see severe weather in November, December and January; so some of our really severe events have actually happened in the winter time.

What is clear is that the damage caused by ever more severe and frequent weather events...ripples across the economy to the eventual detriment of shareholders.

Despite the triple threat of rising fuel costs, devastating weather events and an uncertain economy, Chrysler Group delivered consistent monthly and quarterly results with a robust mix of four-, six-, and eight-cylinder products.