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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (403333)	7/31/2008 11:52:22 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574115

>Why not? If mandatory tire pressure checks are going to help us save 5-10% on gas consumption, isn't it worth it? It's too impractical. People get their cars inspected once a year and that's probably the most you can expect. >Just like driving 55 MPH? Try doing that on a CA highway where even those in the "slow lane" drive 80 MPH. Don't we need a law making that mandatory? Possibly. >How about laws punishing car manufacturers for selling gas guzzlers? I'm not for that so much as rewarding them for not doing so. Hybrid and small car sales are through the roof right now while SUVs are sitting on the lot, but no, you can't trust the free market to do its thing, right? Very often, you can't. Usually people have to seriously suffer in the interim, if it works at all. >Name whatever good act American citizens ought to do, and I can name a potential law that can be written to enforce such behavior. Why should forced wealth redistribution be the only law justifyable with the notion that we're a "f----n' society"? It isn't. But I support certain ones, and don't support others. What's wrong with that? -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (403333)	8/1/2008 12:25:36 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1574115

Ten My whole problem with the argument is, that like most statistics cited by liberals, these "savings" are totally overblow. It is just absurd, that when these guys have a cause, they'll just make up statistics to accommodate their needs. My favorite is when Carl Sagan was on Niteline during the Gulf War telling us how only a few burning oil wells in Kuwait could cause a nuclear winter. Of course, he couldn't have envisioned a scenario like the one that played out, but there was no nuclear winter. Life goes on. And then, it was going to take five years to put out the burning wells. Wrong. These exaggerations are part of the liberal playbook and have been there for years. Pick your statistic -- whether it is overstatement of the percentage of the population who are gay (an effort to make it more "normal" way back when), the Al Gore exaggerations of ecological disasters (which have become laughable), Sagan's remarks on Nightline, it is always the same -- massive overstatements to support the cause. The problem, of course, is that it ultimately just destroys the credibility of the cause of the day. btw - I got one of these micro notebook pcs with an Atom processor and SSD storage in it. It is amazing. Battery life close to 7 hours w/o bluetooth or wireless. And reasonably fast, too. I think if Intel built internal combustion engines, we might not have an energy crisis at all.