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Just as you call bans on certain personal freedoms "silly bans", those people who are not car enthusiasts would call a ban on high performance engines the same thing. Captain's sig says it well (look into the actual quote he got his from). When they banned smoking in public places in the name of public safety, there wasn't an uproar because smokers are less than 10% of the population. So the bans stuck. What if they decided to ban "gas guzzlers" in the name of public safety? What percentage of the population would you consider to be car enthusiasts? It sure isn't anywhere near 10%....
I'm not saying they are planning on doing any bans, RIGHT NOW. But the fact is they can at any time they choose to. The Clean Air Act gives them the right to, and courts have upheld that law. And the types of people running the EPA right now are the ones with a history of making "silly bans" in the name of public safety.
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You can call it anything you want, you're entitled to your own opinion... just not entitled to your own FACTS.
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If you know anything about history and current events you will know that GM and Ford are playing with fire. Nothing exists to prevent the Chinese from one day deciding that they have amassed suffucient car manufucturing technology from the gullible and greedy Americans and simply tell them to leave the country or else. Then the state will take over and LOL at anyone who poured a lot of money in stock thinking there was great "growth opportunity". Other than that, we have China harassing the shipping of our Ally Japan, so if something breaks out then, we might have to recall everyone and everything from China. China is allied with North Korea as well, and despite 4 years of january addresses that claimed we were stopping their Nuclear aspirations... well... test #3 of a more powerful miniaturized nuke (missile warhead type) went off the other day. What happens there is anyone's guess. I would not be so quick to boast of the great business happening over there. |
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For example they don't have to BAN anything... just make it extremely expensive to own. What if they put a $5000 per cylinder tax on any car with more than 4 cylinders. But that's beside the point of your qestion... the real answer is that they don't care how many cylinders a car has, it just has to meet some arbitrary standard set so high that it would be impossible to make a car meet the requirement if it had a V8. A "normal" V8 would be too large to fit in such a car. They would have to make a 1.2 liter V8 to fit in a car that passes the standard and that size V8 pretty much defeats the purpose of having a V8 in the first place. |
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Who needs the EPA?
They way things are going anyone with a V8 will be a pariah.
Don't believe me? Here's a copy of a foreboding article: PITTSBURGH (Jan. 4) - In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical environmental group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto dealership. A posting on the group's Web site said the ``attack'' targeted SUVs in a fight ``to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment.'' Jugs of gasoline were set ablaze under three vehicles, engulfing them and a nearby car in flames Wednesday at a dealership in Girard, about 110 miles north of Pittsburgh, FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge said. Three other vehicles also had jugs of gasoline set under them but failed to ignite. ``I have no reason to doubt that it's an individual who committed the acts on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front,'' Rudge said. The FBI considers the Earth Liberation Front one of the nation's most prolific domestic terrorist organizations. It is thought to be responsible for the 1998 torching of a ski resort in Vail, Colo., an arson that caused $12 million in damage and is considered the most destructive act of eco-terrorism in U.S. history. ELF is loosely organized. Anyone who carries out an action under the group's guidelines and claims responsibility as part of the organization is considered a member. Over the past year, its name has been attached to a string of vandalism in Pennsylvania. Last month, the group's Web site said ELF members and cells from the Animal Liberation Front set a Nov. 26 fire at a mink farm in Erie. The fire destroyed a barn, but no animals or people were harmed. The group also claimed responsibility for an Aug. 11 fire at an unoccupied forest research station near Warren and the torching in March of a construction crane at a bridge work site in Erie, Rudge said. ELF's claims of responsibility typically come through its Web site, where managers say they serve only as a media conduit for the group. A manager who did not provide an identity said in an e-mail that the communique about Wednesday's fire came in anonymously, as do all reports of ELF attacks. Rudge said that communique, posted on the Web site, appeared to be authentic because it included information that hadn't been made public. |
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First of all, that was over a decade ago in January of 2003. Second, how do the actions of a terrorist organization reflect, "the way things are going" ?
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Again trying to not to get too political, but the current (though outgoing) Energy Secretary does not a own a car, he bicycles to work. He also openly advocates Americans paying the same price for gasoline as Europeans do. Sounds pretty radical to me, and certainly not mainstream.
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This thread is beyond saving.
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You know, you say that a lot. I have my facts, I've got the experience and that's what I'm entitled to. I guess in your world, 1-liter bikes get beat by anything with more than 4-cylinders.
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Well then it's even dumber to ignore the biggest economy on the planet.
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FYI, even Cuba's GDP is also growing at a faster rate than ours is right now. What Captain said about how China does business is spot on. I work in high tech and counterfeiting is a huge problem. Anything you build over there, they have the specs/plans/designs/etc for. Then they can then manufacture those things themselves, at a cheaper price, and they employ Chinese citizens to do it. And manufacturing it over here doesn't solve the problem either. Anything made here but exported there they can take apart and 'reverse engineer'. And good luck telling them they better crack down on the Chinese businesses doing the counterfeiting. When someone is loaning you money to pay your bills, you're in no position to tell them how to run their house.
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