Posted on 06/02/2009 11:19:59 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Growing up as a teenager in the 1950s, I could not wait to get my license to drive and I liked the sporty look of the British MG. These days I drive a Volkswagen. In that short tale can be found the seeds of the end of the American auto industry.
Heres some history. In 1952, the merger of several British auto companies resulted in the British Motor Corporation. It was the largest of its day with 39% of British output. Despite established dealerships for the various models, a series of poor management decisions resulted in the loss of market share.
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This campaign is coming to a head with a Cap-and-Trade bill making its way through Congress that would impose a huge tax on greenhouse gas emissions by every industry and business that produces or uses energy. It has no scientific justification. Even the Environmental Protection Agencys Office of Transportation and Air Quality has released a study demonstrating that the reduction of CO2 emissions would be minimal at best, but such reductions are absurd because there is no global warming."
Not only has there been no “global warming” for a few years now, but signs point to more of the same... IF diminishing CO2 has an effect, and its effect is to cooling the atmosphere, then we are indeed quickening our demise, as we actually need all the global warming, even man-made, to offset the natural global cooling.
You WILL surrender your SUV and drive one of these Nerfmobiles. Can't fit your family in? No problem. Just take the little buggers to the nearest McTiller franchise for 'disposal'.
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This statement alone should tick off our people and States Rights should dictate whether or not a State wants to drill under its own soil. “The U.S. by some estimates has eight times as much oil as Saudi Arabia, eighteen times as much as Iraq and twenty-two times as much oil as Iran.”
For all the entrepreneurialism, Pure American Can-do-ism that comes out of Google, and with all the search info and market info and thousands of well-trained minds able to do stats, see using stats, understand trends of all social scales — where is Google on this.
Do they not see that they are flying into a thousand mile wide thunderstorm with thunderheads at 65k ft, cloud ceiling at 50k ft, jet at 35K ft? They, like we, are as passengers on this jet, and we are taking on super-lightening hits?
Does 2 + 2 still equal 4, even statistically speaking, even for the new-age internationalist POV?
When will Google act like an adult?
I often remind friends that the US obtained Alaska for one simple reason: Plunder it’s resources. Where the he77 did that concept go?
committing inhomicide to save the earth.. madness..
Texas and Alaska should drill in their territories,
and dare the feds to stop them.
Can you imagine armed 0bamasquads going in and stopping crews from drilling for oil when gas hits $4 this summer?
With all due respect, the nerf-mobile is cool. Obama motors will never allow it — it would mock the Romanian Trabants and Yugos we are about to start manufacturing under our new Facsist Leaders of the Obama age.
It went to Saudi Arabia......where else? The interesting thing is, who and why are we tied to them so tightly. Once this comes out, things may change.
The problem is that the Feds own most of Alaska; but for sure Texans should just drill everywhere and tell Obama to pound sand.
I actually saw a Yugo on the road the other day. This weaselly looking guy was doing 50 mph on a 70 mph freeway just west of Coeur d’Alene. Everybody was passing him and giving him a stare.
I figured it was a local frat initiation or something.
And I just can’t wait for the GM (Gerbil Motors) Trabant analogs to start rolling off the production lines.
Good points...I would certainly like to know why as well!
That’s why they’ve stopped saying “global warming” and now refer to their Marxism as “Climate Change”.
I’d dearly like to be there if they went up against the Texas Rangers.
I don’t believe it’s just “business”. There’s more to it than that.
We could supply 100% of our petroleum needs for almost 300 years with just the recoverable oil in our oil shale alone! There are 2 TRILLION barrels of recoverable oil in the oil shale in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming (yes, that is a Wikipedia link; if they're estimating 2 trillion, it's most likely higher than that). At 20 million barrels a day, we have 100,000 days of oil in the oil shale alone - 274 years minimum.
EVERY drop that is currently pumped in the US could be stopped; we would not need to tap ANWR or ANY off-shore production. We could stop ALL exploration and pumping anywhere in the US. We would not need to import a single drop of oil. Just open up the oil shale and supply every drop we need...
We import almost 50% from the western hemisphere; Canada, Mexico, etc...Why not just drop the middle east 16% and pick that up here in the western hemisphere until we become completely self sufficient?
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