WSJ: No Blood for Oil - Automobile fuel standards cost lives.

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 14, 2005 | Editorial

[muawiyah]

Make trucks smaller. Rail can pick up the large loads.

I'm sure that if the Ruskies could figure out how to scrap out some of those very large tanks of theirs, we can eventually cut up the large SUVs for more suitible purposes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Make trucks smaller. Rail can pick up the large loads. I'm sure that if the Ruskies could figure out how to scrap out some of those very large tanks of theirs, we can eventually cut up the large SUVs for more suitible purposes.

Are you able to communicate in complete, logical, grammatically correct sentences, or is meaningless gibberish all you know?

[jsmith48]

I'd say a vehicle's useful life is around 10 years. 10 years to phase out all of our heavy cars, and replace them with light cars. At 5,000 deaths per year, that comes out to around 50,000 deaths to implement this (fascist) program.

Sounds like a quagmire to me!

[xzins]

Require an increase in mileage and no decrease in vehicle weight.

That should be fun to watch. :>)

[muawiyah]

So, what is it you have against the rail industry in America? Don't want it healthy, do you!

[Spktyr]

I suppose that it might be rude to mention to the chap that the actual "solution" the Russians eventually used to dispose of their old tanks was "sell them to other countries," not "cut them up for scrap."

[EQAndyBuzz]

Here is an idea.

Drill ANWR, tell the environmentalists and the lefties to pound sand and take away the ACLU's litigation fees.

Problem solved.

[em2vn]

Look at his tag line.

[wita]

Doctors and medical treatment, are significant factors in the yearly death toll. Should we run them out of town? I think I would rather run the Sierra Club out of town. BTW, since this area nearly burned to the ground, and the damage was put sqaurely in the laps of environmentalist court cases stopping the forest service from doing their job, the Sierra club has been strangely silent, and about time. Their very existance ought to be threatened, by the truth that their policies and actions cause death and destruction.

[dalereed]

"I'd say a vehicle's useful life is around 10 years"

my PU is now 40 years old and I expect it to last me the rest of my life and i'm only 68!

I wouldn't trade it for a new one straight across.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So, what is it you have against the rail industry in America? Don't want it healthy, do you!

I was just wondering WTF your lazy, incomplete, rambling sentences meant.

[Spktyr]

You mean the rail system that, on its best day and assuming optimum conditions, can only handle 20% of America's shipping needs, and that cannot possibly do "terminal to premises" delivery?

You want to know where the nearest general freight terminal to Dallas (a major city) is? It's 50 miles away in Fort Worth. Large trucks would still be needed to haul stuff to Dallas. Or Waco - it's the same terminal that "serves" them.

[muawiyah]

Increase the use of rollon/rolloff technology.

[sticker]

You can have my SUVs, when you pry them from my cold dead hands

[Spktyr]

Wait, doesn't that still require large trucks? And a freight yard?

Nope, still doesn't get rid of large trucks.

[muawiyah]

BTW, if you take a good look at the "sentences", they are complete and perfect. They are also organized into two paragraphs.

The WSJ, however, didn't think through their position ~ certainly we expect far more creativity than that with them ~ it's not like they are the New York Times.

[Yo-Yo]

What utter tripe. Along with CAFE standards, the Feds also impose crash safety standards.

More lives have been saved with airbags, antilock brakes, computer engineered crumple zones, and redesigned highways than have been lost due to lighter cars. The proof is in the continuing reduction in deaths per mile driven over the past 50 years, and still falling.

Are you safer in a huge heavy SUV? Yes, but only when you're smacking into an econobox. The econobox fares much better than the SUV when both are smacked into a concrete barrier.

[muawiyah]

I saw pictures of Russian heavy tanks being cut up. It's difficult, Fur Shur, but it can be done. Whether they sold them off to people with the capability of cutting them up or otherwise, they solved their problem.

Maybe we could sell off the heavier vehicles (not otherwise used for railhead to destination delivery) to the third-world as mobile homes or something!

[Sgt_Schultze]

It is a hoot to listen to the enviroweenies call for mandating a doubling of mpg. You hear from their "experts" that such a feat is attainable, given today's technology. Yet none of these experts will explain how.

When you reply that if Ford could produce an Expedition that provided the same power and size, and it could roll along at 38 mpg - that they would do so. The ensuing sales boon would crush the competition. Maybe Ford should look at firing their engineers and hiring the enviroweenie "experts" in order to bolster 2006 sales.