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To: Brumar89 who wrote (2520)9/21/2008 8:32:16 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86356
 
1. Don't like it, we are a very mobile society and I don't think we should lose that 'culteral heritage'.
2. I read an op-ed along these lines... the automobile is one of the few products designed specifically to break the law. Imagine the smaller, more efficient engine that could be used if the top speed of each vehicle was 70 MPH.
3. Really same answer as #2.

But by enforcing a stringent much more aggressive CAFE standard, and taxing MPG inefficient vehicles, you are allowing the marketplace to decide. Some may opt for the above. Others may opt or hybrids or electric vehicles. Some may opt to pay the tax which could be used to further technology, and in this way help out.

It's really not a complicated issue.



To: Brumar89 who wrote (2520)9/21/2008 10:40:06 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
Let me see. In the last year, Republicans have presided over the greatest bailouts and transfer of assets between the private and public sectors in US history, and as such, are the progenitors of the greatest shift to socialism in US history and you are squirming about some energy conservation measures?

You are a true, living contradiction.


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