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.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kumar who wrote (187293)	5/25/2006 5:06:47 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why stop at Hummers since the Hummer 1 is going away anyway? Why not just run a hugely inefficient old style gas guzzler spewing black smoke from the tailpipe. You should take care to drive it down the freeway in full view of the commuter traffic. I mean, if you're going to make a statement about how little you think of the planet you live on, you should make it a BIG statement.

To: kumar who wrote (187293)	5/25/2006 9:54:02 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If I want to drive a Hummer, and I am paying for the gas etc (regardless of current price), why is it anyone elses business to even suggest I change ? If you also bought liability insurance to cover any future damages your behavior caused, I would not object. But paying for the gas only, without liability included in the current gas price is a bit of a problem. I live along a river with a dyke on my property. The cost for me to dig a large hole through the dyke is pretty small, I could easily afford it. Should I tell my neighbors downstream that if I dig a hole through the dyke on my property, and pay for it myself, they should mind their own business? Same problem, just one is rather more immediate, and most people would agree on the cause/effect. Burning hydrocarbons and climate change are complex enough, that those who don't like to understand science can hide from responsibility.

To: kumar who wrote (187293)	5/25/2006 10:54:02 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hummer's are for girlymen Kumar: Get with the program. This is what you should sit in traffic jams in, alone.

To: kumar who wrote (187293)	5/26/2006 10:37:33 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

If I want to drive a Hummer, and I am paying for the gas etc (regardless of current price), why is it anyone elses business to even suggest I change?, No difference between driving a Hummer and a Ferrari, or Lambo'.. They each get about the same gas mileage. And that is the crux of the problem.. People have a right to drive what they can afford to drive, so long as it meets environmental quality concerns. Just like people have the right to live in big houses with open windoes that take up more electricity and natural gas. Hawk