Banning the pickup truck

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 21 may 09

[navygal]

I am not giving up my truck or SUV, espcially for a tiny car that cannot hold a family.

[Prokopton]

Some people have to go to work every day.

If the government decides it's best for you, you might have to move.

[dljordan]

“I always laugh at the big SUV with the Obama sticker. Some I yell to at stop signs. “Hey are you going to give your SUV to OBAMA?””

I stopped behind a Volvo 4WD station wagon the other day near Boulder, Co. Obama sticker on the rear window and the license read “X GAIA”. A real friend of the earth there.

[cbkaty]

How ironic that the "masser's" hand locking our chains is the hand of a black man.

Seems that the plan is being advanced faster that the public can digest it........

The good news is the current sovereignty rumblings in several states, Montana, Texas, etc...and even California seems to be awakening.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“Does this man really believe he has the whole nation hypnotized — that he can say one thing while doing just the opposite?”
My feeling is that the number of Americans that are outraged over this garbage is very, very high and that the media are lying through their teeth about that fact. Of course the Socialists are going to be very busy in the next 12 months making sure they amnesty 30 million illegals and do every thing in their power to put a permanent voting base on the government dole. The problem they have is that their plan is not sustainable. We are already shedding jobs from the productive sector at an alarming rate, and everything they've done so far is making sure that trend continues.
We are in for major tax increases, major inflationary death spirals and they won't stop “fixing” things until we're dead. Instead of bitching about it, we should be surrounding Washington D.C. with 100 million people with pitchforks. It's the same path to hell the Nazi's rolled out, and the same results. We all watch while they take away this group and we do nothing because it's not us. Yet.

[cbkaty]

[Kolokotronis]

Maybe Mr. Joseph should take advantage of the Fla. automobile franchise law to the extent it has any viability in a bankruptcy situation. And if it doesn’t, just what did Mr. Joseph think would happen when Chrysler ended up in a Chap 11, which, btw, was inevitable?

[tbpiper]

Don't know. It would be interesting to find out.

I'm anxiously waiting for Obama to start carting his arrogant ass around in a stretched, up-armored smart car.

[pandoraou812]

The RV business is going to suffer too. What am I supposed to pull my 30 ft travel trailer with? Shaking my head again & thinking it IS going to get much worse for us.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

From my dead cold hands.

[stayathomemom]

He’s going to create a new bureaucracy with this. There will be a limited number of larger vehicles made, and consequently a waiting list of people who are going to want these vehicles. I predict that those who want them are going to have to produce a ‘certificate of need’ to prove that they are entitled to own one of these rarer gas guzzlers. Graft and cheating will result.

[Scotswife]

“Just wait until the SUV’s and trucks are banned because they are a danger to the smaller, lighter cars.”

EXACTLY!

[raybbr]

I think the confiscation of private retirement savings is a certainty, and I do not believe that the restoration of legal and constitutional government will come in time to prevent it.

I have read the proposal from last Fall. Do you have any further info? I am debating whether to liquidate mine and keep the money or let it go for a awhile.

Last Summer I put all of it into the "Stable Market" fund and have actually made about 2 percent. I am out of work and could really use the money. I don't want to lose the extra ten percent to taxes but I feel it's a wash since I didn't lose any money in the crash.

[Daisyjane69]

Here’s what I know:

When I moved to Utah from Ohio nearly three years ago, I saw something I’d never seen before; tractors with THREE trailers on them. Not the one or two trailers I’d seen. THREE.

Barreling down on me in my Toyota Corolla in the Virgin Gorge, up and down, winding through the mountains. Trust me, nothing scares you more than being in a small car and seeing that in the rear view mirror. Knowing there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell the the laws of physics can stop that thing. I no longer drive into Vegas on my own. I take the St. George Shuttle; my nerves can’t take it. The triple trailers are also a function of fuel efficiency. So here is my question:

Where is the Transportation Safety Czar? We seem to have Czars for everything, for every condition!

Who is responsible for tallying the cost of these triple tractor trailers, competing for road space with the Toyota Corollas and Smart Cars of the world? Shouldn’t someone be in charge of at least counting the casualties?

I’m just sayin...

[bill1952]

Although I believe it is too late to matter, those that are neither hot nor cold I too will vomit from my mouth.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

It is time for a revolution... of more than the mind.

[Beagle8U]

“If the government decides it's best for you, you might have to move.”

They better bring their lunch, and plenty of fire power.

I'm 1/4 mile off the road and they are in range as soon as they pull in my drive!

[diverteach]

Do not these plans have to go through Congress, or is Odumbo decreeing this through executive order?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

How does this guy find time to run the banking industry, the auto industry, the government, world events and still have time to go to soccer games and strolls on the WH grounds and all kinds of public appearances?

Maybe he has a twin.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...thus avoiding simple bankruptcy, where the firms might have shed their overly costly union contracts and emerged to renewed profitability...”

BUMPITY-BUMP-BUMP-BUMP!

Why do I have this sudden urge to tear up the countryside with my big old Dodge Ram Cummings diesel?

Jerks!

[Prokopton]

The good news is the current sovereignty rumblings in several states, Montana, Texas, etc...and even California seems to be awakening.

The possibility of sovereignty of individual states was forever decided by Lincoln's war. Now, whatever few rights individual states might still have is decided by the Federal Courts, not by the states and not by the people.