35.5 mpg- what a crock!!

I'm not about to defend environmentalists. As you point out, they have made mistakes of their own.

This is why you would fight against them? Not because they're basing some of their conclusions on junk science? If they said something that you would agree with, like "we're for clean water", would you be against them because they're made up of mostly Christ denying evolutionists?

 

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If they told me I had to give up safety & personal choice I would. The environmentalist, and apparently folks like you, assume I don't want clean air, or clean water, and try to paint us as ogres.

 

Is it a Fred Flintstone car?

 

You assume too much.

Kindly direct your overreaction elsewhere.

 

Do you have a link to it?

 

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Put it in the "ask a stupid question" department.

 

This is quite unrealistic

 

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Touche. Well played, sir.

Please see my first post in this thread where I said I was an idiot. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Oh there will be light rail and busses to get us there :BangHead:

 

I own a car today that gets twice the gas mileage and has more power than my first car.

 

Cars will get tiny, lightweight, and unsafe. Not to mention the great King and Tyrant's car companies will pass on the high costs demanded by government to us.

Trucks will be prohibitively expensive. Expect THAT cost to be passed on to you when you hire a plumber, contractor, or lawn care person.

On top of all that...these will be government-manufactured cars, primarily owned by UAW. In other words, they will be pieces of junk.

If all this stuff goes through...I hope they never sell another car.

 

An 80,000 pound truck goes down the road getting 8-11 mpg and a pickup going down the road with a trailer gets maybe 10 mpg. Imagine that? at best that same pickup empty gets possibly 19 or 20 mpg. Compare that to an 80,000 to 105,000 pound truck. Better yet compare the mileage to a train and the weight it hauls.

 

What oil company promoted that article?

 

Unsafe? How? My car isn't.

Yes and no, there is the principle of co-belligerence eg: what you're suggesting is tantamount to saying that because evangelicals differ with Roman Catholics over soteriology, we should fight against them on abortion. The UK evangelical movement is pretty firmly pro-environmental. Perhaps it's because we live in a crowded little island with precious little countryside left.

 

No, it's a 1.9L Citroen Xsara Picasso with a turbo diesel engine.

 

Why? How? Are you saying I'm not telling the truth?

 

I remember the years when there were naysayers about the gas mileage we get today in cars. They went form rear wheel drive to front wheel drive. The car I had in 1984 when I got rid of it had less than 100,000 miles on it but it was tired and I had already replaced seevral parts that the car I won today has never needed replacing. The car I own today has 220,000 miles on it and is in far better shape than my car was in 1984. The upholstery is better and has cost me far less in manintenance and repairs than my previous car.