Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : The California Energy Crisis - Information & Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (902)	8/22/2001 1:15:06 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1715

This is the same kind of thinking that created MAD, Mutally Assured Destruction, and the 6,000 nuclear tipped missiles we have currently got aimed at the people of Russia and the FSU, guaranteed to kill 'em 12 times over! You'll get no argument from me about the madness of nuclear weapons proliferation. Equating that insanity with big SUVs is a ludicrous analogy, though. Mrs. Peel is exactly right in stating that pollution regs are proper (when applied reasonably) but size and fuel efficiency of vehicles should be determined by consumer choice in the market place. have you considered that if everyone were required* to downsize to sensible vehicles,* A sentence to make a libertarian shudder. The epitome of nanny statist mentality. Whatever vehicle anyone chooses to drive is no one elses business, unless said vehicle is in an unsafe condition, to the extent of endangering others on the road. and the insanity of allowing Californians to drive 75 MPH in Tule fogs were ended, that we'd all be a lot safer, and saner? Anyone who speeds in foggy conditions is an idiot (and I've had mucho experience on foggy interstates, scares the sh!t out of me.) However, speed limits, per se, have little to do with safety and lots to do with ticket revenue collection, in many instances. Montana had a good system, with "reasonable and prudent" speeds on open rural roads, until the courts threw it out. I own several vehicles that are capable of speeds in excess of 150 MPH and I know a few deserted roads where I give them a good workout on occasion. There's much about Europe that I don't like, but they're right when they say that Americans drive way too fast in cities and towns and much too slow out on wide open roads.