Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:16:37 -0700
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From: neil <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)
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Don.
From my POV, the US, in general, leads the way in consumerism. Canada
is not far behind. In fact we may already be there.
We're all prone to being brainwashed by "the machine". And movies like
"Wag The Dog" make the point.
I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" AND "Who killed The Electric Car"
all in one night. Pretty f'n scary.
If you haven't already seen it, watch the Electric Car movie. This
might answer some of your questions!
:)
Neil.
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
On 6/22/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
> Diesel vehicles dominate sales in the rest of the world..(debatable) They are much more efficient at getting more miles per monetary unit and much less polluting than gasoline..(debatable) But our current Oil corporation run administration keeps diesel vehicles from being economically viable here in the United States..And yet, they reward wealthy citizens with large tax breaks if they buy 'super-sized' vehicles..My brother in law was just shopping for a new car and wanted to buy a diesel sedan, but after shopping around, weighing the costs, he ended up with a CadillacK! Because it weighed enough to qualify for a $6000 tax rebate! WTF is with THAT? How do we let that kinda corruption exist in our government here in the US?
> We recently watched Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth" dvd about global warming..One point he made was that our US mandated minimum mileage standards are almost the lowest in the civilized world, and by a significant margin..
> He showed some statistics about US car sales, while making a point about how conserving energy does not come at the cost of our economic health, like Bush's Oil powered government would like us to believe. Directly related to US cars poor fuel mileage are their poor market share in the world...Not only wouldn't most of our US cars not fit into most streets around the rest of the world, but they also would be excluded because they fall waay short of even China's mandated fuel efficiency standards...
> When will we here in America wake up and stop allowing oil companies to dictate what kinda motors we must use here? When you gotta go to Canada or Mexico to get a decent car, and then sneak it across the border and drive it "on the sly"..something stinks...
> Sorry for the off topic..but not being able to find TDI motors..watching the CARB rule against electric vehicles in favor of Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (then seeing the head of the CARB resign to take a position with a....Hydrogen fuel cell company..) Not being able to purchase or import a 60mpg diesel basic car, like is available world wide...that stinks..
> Don Hanson
>
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Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
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