Posted on 04/09/2007 7:37:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The mass of people are in favor of fixing GW, but the masses don't understand everything in their lives is fueled by carbon and, under the guise of environmental stewardship, we will cede total control of our lives to the socialists and communists.
From each according to their ability ; to each according to their need.
K Marx
Don’t they have gas taxes in that state? You already pay a penalty for buying a gas guzzler.
Exactly!
Imagine that. Liberals using something else to take money away from some people in order to give it to others.
Sometimes I really hate be in CA.
With Mexican trucks on the roads, we all best be driving Hummers.
Why, a 5-year-old can understand it. Run out and get me a 5-year-old: I can't make head or tail of it.
G Marx
Robin Hood approach?? That's hardly how I'd describe it.
If I recall the story correctly, Robin Hood wasn't the tax collector but rather the man who robbed the tax collector. He then returned the money to those who had paid the taxes.
Instead of this silliness, where are the funds for developing a much needed Mass Transit System? Talk about not seeing the greenhouse for the flowers.
Of course none of this will apply to cars registered in Mexico and driven into the US by Mexican green card holders or dual citizens.
You can also pass emmissions with any old car if you go to the right immigrant owned emissions test station(already used that myself)..they just stick the probe in a good car.
Why should taxpayers be giving “rebates” to people who drive fuel-efficient automobiles? That makes no sense at all.
I would support this if they expanded the reasoning behind. As far as I am concerned, we do need to make our vehicle MUCH more efficient. Not because of Global Warming, but because of our dependence on Oil.
Peak Oil is likely upon us. Even if it’s not, the oil is in “places that don’t like us very much.” We need to move on.
From each according to their ability ; to each according to their need.
K Marx
Glad you asked...
In this politician's area - San Jose, CA, we have a relatively new, extensive, expensive and grossly under utilized light rail system that criss crosses the city EMPTY.
Each train, consisting of several cars is usually carrying no more than a few riders in each car... Many times these are the homeless or drunks using the train as a "home on wheels" or a safe place to sleep.
Due to under utilization by the public, each rider is STILL subsidized by the taxpayer for the bulk of the cost of running the damned system.......which runs from nowhere to nowhere else.
Semper Fi
Defeat that idiot in the next election. I have often wondered about Mercedes, Volvos, BMW and Audi’s, how do these cars fair against an Expedition?
Understand: global warming as a "fixable" thing is A RIDICULOUS ILLUSION.
Read some natural history books and URGE OTHERS TO READ NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS. Common sense will out, truth will out. Geologists pretty much figure that the planet has been around for five-and-a-half billion years. A million years is a tiny, fragment of a drop in the bucket; 125,000 years is virtually nothing at all.
Indeed, 125,000 years ago is RECENT history, just a few moments ago, globally speaking. Evidence indicates that compared to today, sea levels were about 25 feet higher back then; 20,000 years ago -- even more miniscule a time period, a fraction of a second ago, geologically speaking -- sea levels were about 350 feet lower than they are now.
An informed person will understand that the pronoucement by anyone, "scientist" or especially politician, that technologies that have barely been in existence for 100 years (so ridiculously insignificant a period of time with regard to any intelligent assessment of earth sciences as to be absurd) are "killing" our planet, is laughable, should be hooted out of the room in derision. It is 100 percent absurd, and anyone with access to knowledge should know it NOW.
As long as people even begin to credit a shred of legitimacy to the idea that we can affect global climate changes -- this planet's global climate has been, and (God willing) will ALWAYS be changing -- then Liberals and environmtalists will call the shots. When people become educated enough to understand that they're clearly being flim-flammed and that the whole "issue" is bogus, then things will change.
Sad to say ... the Big Apple is way ahead of the Big Orange in this regard.
I guess no one sent them the memo on how making and producing the batteries for those ‘green’ cars causes more pollution than just leaving everything the hell alone.....damn, these people piss me off !!!!!
OK, I’m better now. ;-))
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