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Necessity is the mother of invention

Or - engineers only work with a gun to their head. It's not the responsibility of the government to pay car manufacturers to produce cleaner vehicles. It's the governments job to create laws and force car manufacturers to produce cleaner vehicles.

It's called a level playing field - right now, SUV's are exempt from laws cars must abide by - why? Government corruption because SUV's offer substancially higher profit.

The point? Corbin Motors made an ugly car that has NO market (I'd love to have read the market research on THAT). I can't believe anyone put a dime into what I saw in that picture (I have seen some on the road at UCD).

The other point? Requiring cars to be fuel efficient and clean burning is only going to hurt car manufactures if there are loopholes that certain manufacturers can take advantage of that others can't.

 

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Contrary to what you apparently believe - I am not a tree hugging hippie. I AM British, so I tend to see all the American lockstep corporate bull***** with clearer eyes, not having spent quite so many of my infant years in front of MTV and related advertising drivel. I also READ a lot of information - about the classification of truck vs. car (as stated below), and exemptions for certain cars (like the new Hummer2).

We live in America, land of the conned and pissed on. The funny thing is that few in this God forsaken country are even interested in anything other than how big the burger they just ate was. So, respond in detail and I will crack your little world into the wedges of solidified crap from whence it came.

Or do nothing, like the majority of this country - because it's too damned hard and, omg!! Nascar is on, followed by 3 hours of brain sucking sitcoms laced with subtle but permeating advertising - and that's before the commercials come on.

 

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Well - actually - I'm quitting smoking cigarettes right now. So bitter is a good word for what I am feeling.

As for American college campus bullshyt - I don't see how it relates to anger over clear cronyism from the boys in charge. Incidentally - I support a large gas tax and significant de-regulation - thus allowing the "free" market to actually work to our advantage.

Besides, I am no longer in college and work in a company about the size of yours.

I'm glad to hear that you are financially secure, and I'm sure that you'll keep on voting Republicans into office until you realize that they are setting up tax hikes for the working middle class (YOU).

 

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Hey Gooseman - I said "setting up" tax hikes - that will undoubtedly go into effect after this administration leaves office.

The point is - Bush isn't balancing the budget, but he IS cutting tax for the super rich and cutting aid for the super poor. Generally speaking - this leaves the working middle class to make up the money that the dividend tax and interest tax (due to new "lifetime savings" plan) would have made. Of course, none of this is going to happen NOW, but it's already in process.

Anyway - lets go back to talking about motorcycles because we obviously don't get along talking about politics - and this isn't the forum for it anyway.

Buzglyd: I'm not a frat boy and never was - 'nuff said.