Posted on 12/05/2008 3:46:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
In the social circles of the New York Times editorialists, it's OK to have one kid. Two is pushing the envelope. Three or more is tacky, and a threat to the survival of the planet.
That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built. Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady suggests that as a condition of the Detroit bailout, "Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date."
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Because we haven't had a truly free market, financial or otherwise, since well before FDR.
Sounds like you should be supporting domestic oil production, not government-imposed vehicle restrictions. Write your congressman...
Isn’t that where kids come from? :)
that also includes using coal to make more electricity, making more cars and trucks hybrid or diesel, building more nuclear power plants, more ethanol in our gas, more compressed natural gas vehicles, using solar and wind power where we can to supplant nuclear power, using our oil supply judiciously, etc. — all of that goes to naught if some folks say “I can pay, so let me use up our nation’s future”
Anoreth would drive herself everywhere if she was allowed.
Don’t worry. The Koreans, or the Chinese or the Japanese or even the Euro’s will be happy to make some to meet the demand.....
You are a potential National Socialist/Marxist/Communist.
I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution against people like you.
Really, so that means you DO wish to support the Islamic terorists by sending them your petro-dollars to spend on supporting jihadis to attack America, Americans and American interests? Very patriotic. The next time you take a hummer up 5th avenue and rev it at the signals, think of all the money you’ll be sending to Osama Bin Laden.
It makes me laugh at how much people pick on the SUV’s yet has anyone mention safty over enviorment and purse?
I was listening to Daniel G. Amen, MD is a physician, psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and he included in his talk to protect the brain drive a safe car.
The lighter cars may not be a gas guzzler like the SUV’s but the SUV is a solid safe car.
New SUV’s get better gas mileage and pollute less than many smaller, older cars, especially poorly-maintained ones. And what about auto racing - talk about a waste!
no more...no less.
Attitudes like yours are much more of a threat to the American way of life that anyone from Mecca or Medina.
You really are no different than other liberals that desire to control ours lives based upon their views.
I still think my interpretation of Latin of your tag line is really closer than what you think your tag line means.
Bully for you.
Cronos:
Fixated upon petro-dollars instead of freedom.
Freedom is more important security. Period.
You want to take away more of our freedom.
Perhaps you ought to get out of NYC sometime.
Are you just filled with envy of those in NYC with large vehicles?
OK, a lot of activities are ‘wasteful’.
After SUVs are banned by people like you what will you ban next to limit ‘abuse’, and save ‘petro-dollars’?
I am serious. People like you will move onto other freedoms that don't agree with your deluded minds.
What will it be?
Government controlled:
thermostats
mileage
sport activities
size of families
size of houses (you are probably fond of the term McMansion)
amount of food
size/number of RV’s
Pay to any and every member of society
Tell me Cronos, Where will you stop? What is the last freedom will you take from me? Think of Rhineland, the Anschluss in Austria, Poland, France, Europe, Russia,
Where will you stop?
I agree that stopping purchases of oil from our country’s enemies is a good idea. This could be done without targeting any particular product for punitive taxation. Gas prices would go up, more than likely, but if our own domestic resources were opened for exploitation, and other sources of energy maximized, prices would quickly fall again. For example, if we built more nuclear plants to generate electricity, more oil would be available for other uses.
In other words, I don’t think we have to posit a tradeoff between freedom and security in this area. We need *more* freedom to develop domestic energy sources, and the motivation could be provided by ending purchases from our enemies.
How old is Anoreth?
Our second oldest will turn 16 in April, and he thinks that will be the day he gets to roam free.
He forgets it took his sister a year to go from permit to junior license.
She bought her own car during her senior year in high school.
I know I said this in other threads, but don’t know if you were on those threads - we lost one child ten years ago.
So while I’ve had 8 children - I am raising just 7.
So - with one driving on her own, we fit the other 6 very comfortably in our Sequoia.
Anoreth will be 18 in March, and plans on going to college locally for another couple of years. Bill is 14, and he’ll be taking driver’s ed next week, but can’t get a permit until he’s 15 (next April) or a license until he’s 16.
I’m sorry, if I’d read that you lost a child, I didn’t remember.
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