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To: Stoat

he would quickly notice that quite often the "winner" in an auto accident (the car and occupants receiving the least damage/injury) will be the bigger and heavier car.

You do realize of course that the bigger heavier car is
going to be paying the larger premium?


2 posted on 02/27/2006 5:54:55 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
You do realize of course that the bigger heavier car is
going to be paying the larger premium?

Yes, that's a primary point of the article:.

"Owners of cars with high emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, face higher taxes. "

4 posted on 02/27/2006 5:58:32 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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Now you've done it! The lib's are now going to accuse those driving larger vehicles of having an "unfair advantage" in vehicle crashes and thereby owners of these larger vechicles must be penalized by being struck in the head with a sledge hammer by a trained government "Vehicle Injury Adjudicator" so to equalize the injuries for all parties involved....


14 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:37 PM PST by snoringbear
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To: tet68
he would quickly notice that quite often the "winner" in an auto accident (the car and occupants receiving the least damage/injury) will be the bigger and heavier car.

Exactly. And the Power Elite do not want peons like us "winning" against their limos

48 posted on 02/28/2006 5:26:45 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
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