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8/14 Hate SUVs? Pledge to give out fake SUV tickets for Failure to
Care About the Environment:
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/06/08/greens-issuing-citations-in-uk
http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/2003/01/ma_221_01.html
http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk/shop.htm#parking
\_ just give them out to all car owners. and RIDE BIKE!
\_ What the hell? Am I the only person here who lives a car-free
bike-based lifestyle for non-environmental reasons? Sure, I think
it's nifty that it's good for the environment, but if cars were
zero-emissions, I still wouldn't be tempted. Is it really that
much of a sacrafice to give up an average of $7000/year down the
rathole, hours and hours wasted behind the wheel when you could
be working or at home or outside, the legal hassles, the
logistical hassles, and the breakdowns? I bike because when I'm
on a bike, I'm *happy*, and when I'm in a car I'm *pissed*. The
rest is secondary.
on a bike, I'm *happy*, and when I'm in a car I'm *pissed*, to
save hundreds of thousands of dollars during my working lifetime,
for health, to enjoy the outside, to avoid hassle, and lastly
because it's good for the environment. Are you environment
motivated bikers all going to go buy SUVs if they come out
with a zero emissions SUV? Really?
\_ You tree-huggers crack me. Keep posting crap like this.
Meanwhile 3rd world countries are polluting en masse in ways
thousands of SUVs could never do. I said it again - the only
pro-enviroment thing a person can do is off themselves. Period.
\_ I drive a car because I like the flexibility to change jobs
and not worry about having to move where I live. I drive a
car because I like the flexibility of having an extra hour a
day I didn't spend "trapped on a bike". I'd love a
zero-emissions vehicle.
\_ Fine. Be your bad self with your car. I was talking to
the RIDE BIKE people who at least pose on the motd as
if environmental concerns are the main reason they made
that choice. I just find that hard to believe, anymore
than I believe you drive because you just love smog.
\_ There are plenty of environmental concerns related
to driving other than emissions. -tom
\_ Yeah, I agree. But suppose there were none at all.
Would you drive? I wouldn't, and I'm just
wondering how many car-free people would or
would not drive if it were not for the
environmental impact. There is no negative
environmental impact that I know of to pounding
railroad spikes through my cock, but I'm not
going to start doing that any time soon either.
\_ Many of the environmental problems of the
automobile are inherent to it (traffic and
sprawl being two examples). -tom
\_ Do you enjoy driving?
\_ I did. I drove across the country in
three days. -tom
\_ And you "Nothing I ever do makes any difference" people
annoy the hell out of me. Why do you even bother living?
If a person used 10 less gallons of gasoline, that person
used 10 less gallons of gasoline. You do it because it's
\_ fewer
a good thing to do, not because it's going to suddenly
change the world.
\_ we're so sorry to hear of your passing. -tom
\_ Can we do the same to reckless drivers regardless of the type of
vehicles they drive? I was almost hit by a van last Friday which
changed lane into mine.
\_ Dude! that's a good idea. We should have licenses for vehicles,
and print little metal signs on them to indicate the number of
the license, then we can have some "traffic laws", which allow
tickets to be handed out to reckless drivers by "cops".
This idea might just go places.
\_ You mean I can call the cops and they'll actually do something
about it??? I did copy down the license plate number and the
time and location, just to submit them to
http://www.baaqmd.gov/exhaust/exhaust.asp to give the owner a
little annoyance. That's my powerless citizen's way to
punish him/her.
\_ There is no need for that because demand is down already:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Hummer+h2%2Chummer+h3
Meanwhile demand for eco cars are um, almost the same:
Meanwhile demand for eco cars are um, cyclical:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=gasoline%2C+hybrid%2C+prius
\_ GM does not believe in supply and demand. Why should they?
They can always get socialist LOOTER republicans to bail them
out using our tax dollars taken by MEN WITH GUNS.
\_ If the invisible hand allows GM to do what they are good
at doing, then they are deemed the best and the brightest
in the free-market and are automatically rewarded as
expected. Why do you hate capitalism you commie-pig?
\_ I am a capitalist and you are clearly not. When a
company fails due to the consistent stupidity of its
management, it deserves to FAIL, not get bailed out
by the taxpayer. That's socialism. In a capitalist
system, GM would have either failed a long time ago or
actually started responding to market forces.
Of course people like you only call it socialism when you
give ten bucks to a poor person. When you give ten billion
to a failing corporation you call it capitalism, but that
doesn't make it so. GM management are like villains out of
an Ayn Rand novel, and so are you if you defend them.
\_ Who said GM was the best or brightest at anything? You
are definitely not reading the financial news. Your
point would be a lot strong (or even exist) if you knew
wth you were talking about. |
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| www.autoblog.com/2006/06/08/greens-issuing-citations-in-uk awareness tickets from an environmental group chiding owners for driving resource-hungry vehicles in cities like London. Advocates say they're warning consumers of the genre's potential effect on future generations, as well as those in the present (read: safety issues). While hardly at the same level of popularity as their US counterparts, UK SUV ownership has skyrocketed in excess of 40 percent in the last half-decade - this, despite increasingly stiff tax hikes that target the vehicles. Although I agree that many people do not need these sorts of vehicles, I am tired of a blanket generalisation. We also use our SUV for extensive outback touring and in rugged mountains. We have tried some lighter SUVs but ended up with bent suspensions and rattling them to pieces. Also, would you target our SUV with a relatively efficient turbo diesel engine and leave alone a V8 Sedan which gets far worse mileage. Seems irrational, if the environment is the focus then focus on inefficient cars and dont target a car because it is a certain body style or you dont like the idea of it. It's hard to destroy pristine wilderness and run over endangered lizards with a car. Nor can you use a car to tow any boat large enough to adequately pollute lakes and slash manatees. I don't actually care about any of that, I can just see someone saying it. Crash compatibility and high headlights are my only beefs with SUVs. I see hybrid faggots driving all the time like their on a NASCAR track, GREAT way to save GAS when you drive like you have a V8! I don't own a SUV, my wife has a CRV if you can call that one. SUV are country vehicles and not for crowded city centres, I fully support farmers using them, they genuinely need them, but city slickers do not need these 'Chelsea Tractors' They get what they deserve. I really want to know what these environmental groups are driving. If they were so concerned with the environment then need to sell their vehicles, leave the modern world, and go live with nature. Well, the "free market" discussion gets a little more complicated when you take into account the marketing muscle in outfits as big as Ford and GM. Large SUVs aren't necessarily the "best" vehicle for many buyers--though I'm sure they are for some--but marketers are very good at convincing a family of three that they "need" an SUV to do all that parading around the wilderness that they can't do in an Accord (though they won't actually do it regardless of vehicle). Traditional, simplified discussions of free-narket economies don't take into account today's commercial media saturation and the increasing number of media outlets. That said, while I personally give a big thumbs-down to oversized, underengineered, underutilized full-sizers like the Suburban and Expedition, I think my fellow environmentally-conscious "advocates" are plagued by a whole other set of misunderstandings. I've heard people rant about RAV4s, Highlanders, and CR-Vs, which is just ridiculous. Not my thing, but if they're using no more fuel than a V6 Camry, what's the problem? The other one that makes me shake my head in shame is when environmentalists go off on SUVs, and then get in their '80s Volvos, VW Buses, or clapped-out diesel Benzes and belch pollutants all the way home. Again, that's only a fraction of the total group, but I hate how stupid they make left-of-center folks like myself look. But then, I don't consider the people who employ these tactics true environmentalists... For them, it's as much a lifestyle statement as it is a push for environmental awareness. Well, I'm glad I got one of the early posts on this one. I use it a dozen times a year to tow my race car and trailer. I use it several more times a year to get through the snow-covered tertiary streets the city WONT plow. Should I get one of these bullshit self-rightous sham tickets? What about when the farmer has to go to city hall for the day? The problem with these tickets and the eco-NAZI's behind them is they ASSUME the owner has no legitimate purpose. This kind of automatic guilt belongs only in facist states, not free nations. Frankly it isn't anyone's business but mine what I drive. If someone wants to drive a little tin can that would lose in a collision with a bicycle, it's fine by me. If I want a serious chunk of steel around me and my family - that's my decision. Re Carlos, what do you mean like how much of the former Soviet Union looks and smells? From my understanding, I haven't ever been there, enforcement of and laws pretaining to the environment are few and far between in Russia. 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