Numnuts:
I took the bait. This is unretractable, so you now have a copy which you may post (or repost) anywhere you see fit, just give me credit.
Environmentalists run amok? Sounds like another emotional response gleaned from the stuff you're reading. No, the truth is out there for you, and I trust that you have the intellect to read and make an informed decision. Just do a search on CAFE standards. I think you will find that it's purely special interest lobbying that created the loophole that Subaru is unfortunately using in order to compete. History is repeating itself here. Twice as many people are driving and average fuel economy is going down. Mass transit projects are stalled, and roads seem to be in a continual state of construction to increase capacity. I honestly scratch my head and wonder if we've lost our collective memory. I guess we have since a generation has passed.
I would agree that CAFE standards are not the way to go. If you're going to write a law that says you cannot kill rabbits with a rifle, but it's OK with a shotgun, then what's the sense of writing the law in the first place? Let the market make the correction. Either stop importing Arab oil, or tax the shit out of it! I personally believe that you and I should pay roughly twice the current price for fuel - plain and simple. I really don't care if people want to drive Abrams tanks down the road, it just shouldn't be subsidized in any way by the federal government. Oh, that includes military operations to secure "strategic interests".
Neither can I be convinced with myopic platitudes (a la Sean Hannity), that it's all gonna be OK, because technology is going to save us. Fuel Cells - Bullshit. Where the hell are you going to get the energy to reduce oxidized hydrogen (i.e. water)? Magic dust? Are we gonna construct huge solar panels over the ocean? People who cite fuel cells as saving grace have absolutely no understanding of redox chemistry and thermodynamics.
One can justify people's preferences, but that doesn't make it right. All you're really doing is putting on blinders and pretending that everything's OK. This is all consistent with my current understanding of the Republican mantra: natural resources are inexhaustible, oil reserves in the middle-east are imminent domain, the earth magically sucks up pollution, trade deficits and budget deficits don't matter, might makes right, and habitat destruction/species extinction have no real ecological or quality-of-life impact - just an unfortunate price for progress. All this rationalization for what? For a perceived unalienable right - as an American - to drive the largest metal box down a highway? Why is it so hard for people to see that an economy fueled primarily on the consumption of crude is unsustainable?
Finally, If Cowboy's administration allows mining interests to resume "mountaintop removal" to get at coal seams in the Appalachians, then he'll never get my vote - that's the straw.
Sounds to me as if that Florida sun has finally cracked his melon.
Earth to Dr. S: telling other people how to live their lives is fascism. Look, we can convert to bio-diesel and cut our defendence on Mid-East oil (BTW, we get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela, not Kuwait , Iraq or Iran.)
Not that not buying another drop of crude from the Mid-East would stop our problems there. They hate us for who we are, supporters of freedom in general and Israel in particular. All those co-ed you see sashaying down the beaches in St. Augustine in skimpy attire are nothing more than the manifestation of Satan to these clowns. And they have a demostrated proclivity to want to kill Americans in America.
Sorry. Green is good idea that I practice in real-life. Yeah, I heat my house with wood and am doing so right now. But if you think all SUVs are superfluous planet killers, then maybe you should move to somewhere where they are a necessity: like upstate NY.
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