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From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises on 4 May 2010 19:05 On May 4, 6:39 pm, Forrest Hodge <f...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On 5/4/2010 4:55 PM, Bob F wrote:> Forrest Hodge wrote: > > >> 3. No thanks, cars are more than just appliances to me. Sure I could > >> drive a 1 liter shitbox, but I like the idea of having 400+ HP at my > >> whim. Gas is cheap. > > > I guess that's the problem. It's too cheap. > > Well, those who have vehicles that use more fuel are paying > proportionately in taxation already. I have no problems with that. It's > my choice to drive a muscle car. But I don't think the government should > artificially create rules and regulations that get in the way of what > the people want. In Britain for example fuel is taxed heavily. It all > but forces people to drive smaller, less powerful cars. You have to be > rather wealthy in Britain to afford a petrol powered V8 car or SUV. If > they had more reasonable (by North American standards) fuel taxation, > they probably wouldn't be driving diesel hatchbacks around. They wouldn't fit in their roads and who cares about cars that are bigger outside and waste gas for the hell of it. My favorite car (most fun, lots of character, perhaps most roomy) has always being a 2 cylinder '72 Honda 600. Now Honda cars seem big, fat and stupid, except for the Fit. Next I like the 3 cyl. Geo Metro. That's all you need to go under 70mph.
From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises on 4 May 2010 19:07 On May 4, 6:03 pm, Michael Dobony <sur...(a)stopassaultnow.net> wrote: > On Tue, 04 May 2010 14:32:33 -0500, FatterDumber& Happier Moe wrote: > > His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic > > Enterprises wrote: > >> Do you find that you can't sleep, or that you have nightmares? > > >> Here's some practical advice: > > >> 1- WALK > > >> 2- RIDE A BIKE > > >> 3- DRIVE SOMETHING AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE... > > >> And at the end of the day, you may find it easier to sleep. > > >> WARNING: This advice may have some positive side effects such as > >> losing weight. > > >> ----------------------------------------------------------- > > >> THE WISE TIBETAN MONKEY SAYS > > >> "Never forget living high on the hog may make you a pig" > > >>http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION > > > I don't like shrimp so I'm OK with it. > > At this point in time there is no evidence that Obama had ordered any > sabotage of the rig to discredit offshore oil rigs and raise the price of > crude. Good, I think we can suspect the oil slick monster. Or maybe the Devil. Who else could be sabotaging the driving habits of good hard working Americans who drive SUVs?
From: Brent on 4 May 2010 19:22 http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard224.html
From: Jeff Strickland on 4 May 2010 19:45 Do I feel guilty? No, I do not. Without regard to any other energy source, America needs oil. We can get that oil from our own sources and risk the bad effects of spills, or we can court the Ragheads and buy their oil. We could, and arguably should, migrate our energy sources to coal and natural gas, but those sources have objectionable overhead too. Perhaps not as objectionable as an oil spill, but somebody would pitch a fit for something if we used coal or gas. But coal and natural gas make poor energy sources for automobiles. They do make good energy sources for homes and power plants, and lots of other kinds of things where stationary energy is needed. I do not argue that stationary energy loads could be powered better than coal or natural gas can do, I only argue that if these energy loads use petroleum based energy, then we could switch them away and use the petroleum in our automobiles. I do not argue that natural ghas would not work in an automobile, but it hasn't the same energy value that petroleum has, so it would take more to drive a car 350 miles than the gasoline that is used now. I see no reason to not convert energy loads -- cars and factories -- to natural gas or coal, and cars would do far better with natural gas than with coal. America has coal and natural gas to sell to the world, but we should use it locally and wean ourselves from the Ragheads that would rather kill us that get rich from us. But, no, I do not feel guilty. It's not my fault that the envirowhackos have not allowed us to migrate to renewable energy, or nukes to power stationary energy loads. For example, my state has more than doubled its population in the past 30 years, but not added any new energy sources, so we need far more foreign oil than we might otherwise need if we had built alternative energy sources. Why do you ask?
From: Phlip on 4 May 2010 21:17
On May 4, 4:45 pm, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrj...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Do I feel guilty? > > No, I do not. > > Without regard to any other energy source, America needs oil. Witness how emasculated the addict feels if he thinks his source is threatened. |