Posted on 05/26/2006 6:52:33 AM PDT by rattrap
Some organization, the Consumer Federation of America, has has come up with an amazingly stupid idea on how to combat high energy usage. They want to ban advertising of gas-guzzling SUVs on television [pdf]. They have other brilliant ideas, such as an SUV buyback program. Just who would buy them back? Well, I would suppose this gaggle of idiots would propose that either the government (which means the taxpayers) or the automakers buy them back. Either way the cost is passed down to individuals; either taxpayers or shareholders. They also want a federal gas tax that would stabilize, as they call it, gas prices at about four bucks a gallon. Oh .. and they say they have polls showing strong consumer support for their ideas.
In the America of 2006 you don't have to look far to find someone who will tell you of all of the problems we can solve by just limiting freedom with more government controls and regulations. We have an obesity problem, why not ban the advertising of foods that exceed a certain caloric or fat content? How about a cheeseburger buyback program?
The really sad thing is that these idiots actually manage to get media attention.
ROFL!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!
You are wrong. Insurance statistical data proves your wrong. SUV's are safer than compacts.
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