Fat People, taxes, Government

[ylexot]

Think I haven't thought about it?

I have bills to pay. I have to pay for college. I can't just drop the cash and buy a new car.

Get in line for a Smart Car
smart USA - open your mind to the car that challenges the status quo

 

[vegmom]

Cure for Global Warming and Obesity:

Walk more, drive less.

Easier said than done around here though.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Cure for Global Warming and Obesity:

Walk more, drive less.

Easier said than done around here though.

If I could go for a walk, SAFELY, in Waldorf, I would.

 

[RadioPatrol]

yep congress wants to BAN SUV's and force everyone into unsafe Prius

 

[neveragainangel]

Congress recently banned incandescent light bulbs (Thanks Bush ) and soon all cars will need to meet the 30+ mpg standard.

what happens if the cars dont meet the standard?

 

[RadioPatrol]

They're working on it and they could probably do it if they didn't care about the towing capacity.
GMC - 2008 Yukon Hybrid | World's First Hybrid SUV

Or they need to create a vehicle like I'm designing for my grad project...

Fords already got a Hybrid SUV - or is the Escape to small to qualify ....

 

[RadioPatrol]

I'll take mass transit any day, especially if it means not having to deal with the Beltway or DC traffic.

YUM Riding the Subway with the Great Unwashed Masses ............

 

[RadioPatrol]

I have a question. So they are gonna require the cars to average 35mpg. Who enforces it? Does it mention what the punishment will be?

Right now the Gov adds a Gas Guzzler Tax ........ you'll find it on all Lambo's Bentlys's ..... Etc of several 1000 dollars depending on how bad the FE is

 

[Dymphna]

what happens if the cars dont meet the standard?

Cars manufacturers or importers will be fined, or taxed. A fee they will in turn pass along to consumers when they sell the cars. This is something they already do. When I bought my first car in 1990, I looked at SAABs...the dealer also sold Lamborghinis...I happened to look at a sticker and there was a fee I didn't recognize, so I asked...he called it a gas-guzzling tax. The car made 6 miles to the gallon.

 

[RadioPatrol]

"I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?"

Dennis Leary
Demolition Man.

Starts about 4:25

 

[neveragainangel]

YUM Riding the Subway with the Great Unwashed Masses ............

I ride the subway everyday and am surrounded by other business folks going to work. What subway do you ride?

 

[neveragainangel]

Cars manufacturers or importers will be fined, or taxed. A fee they will in turn pass along to consumers when they sell the cars. This is something they already do. When I bought my first car in 1990, I looked at SAABs...the dealer also sold Lamborghinis...I happened to look at a sticker and there was a fee I didn't recognize, so I asked...he called it a gas-guzzling tax. The car made 6 miles to the gallon.

oh thanks. so if you already have you car then you dont have to worry about it?

 

[Dymphna]

Starts about 4:25

Daym...what's the name of that movie...I saw it in the theater, about 1994?...loved the sex scene in it.

Nevermind...I see it, Demolition Man.....anyone up for some Taco Bell?

 

[Sonsie]

YUM Riding the Subway with the Great Unwashed Masses ............

No kidding! I would sit an extra hour in traffic everyday than have all those people breathing up my air and coughing all over... yeesh. I've always hated crowds, any kind of enforced closeness with strangers makes my skin crawl. I have a seriously good sence of smell which is torture. Unwashed people, dirty hair, overpowering perfume, I smell it all at a distance and flinch away. I had to ride the subway a few times over the years and it was always torture during busy periods. That last summer before I retired was the worst. I was pregnant with my daughter and it was so hot. Some fat lady stood next to me and I could smell her dirty hair and she was letting out these silent and deadly farts. I told my boss never again..... I'd rather shovel horse #### all day long than spend 10 minutes on a hot crowded subway car.

 

[toppick08]

Here's a novel idea............let's drill for more oil here in America and build more refineries...........

 

[ImnoMensa]

I will say that my Camry gets an average of 29 mpg, thats not too bad.

I have lurked here and saw a few things that I got a kick out of. One was the gas mileage factor of riding a motorcycle. Yes: you can save a little gas on a motorcycle.Unfortunately that cost is offset by the cost of tires. If the bike has a chain you might think of buying a new chain every 12,000 miles,extra clothing, safety gear,freezing weather brings black ice (a killer) I have ridden home in a snow storm and believe it or not the trip wasnt so bad for my part ,You tend to drag your feet a lot. but if some else slides into you, you arent in a good defensive position. Motorcycles are a great hobby , but they arent very economical in the long run. Especially those that cost in the 20,000 or 30,000 dollar range.

States and Feds in their never-ending search for more money have just about driven cigarettes as high as they can get so they have to look on new sources. The carbon Credit scam looks to me like one of the sweetest scams to ever come down the pike.
You charge a tax on energy to pay to plant trees or do research on some Greenie inspired power source that doesnt exist and probably will never work, or some such horsecrap like that ,the government or Al Gore take the middle mans cut and a pittance will actually do some small amount of good that is all out of proportion to the money stolen. What a racket.

 

[ylexot]

I have lurked here and saw a few things that I got a kick out of. One was the gas mileage factor of riding a motorcycle. Yes: you can save a little gas on a motorcycle.Unfortunately that cost is offset by the cost of tires.

$200 every 10,000 miles?...not even close. And you do have to buy tires for cars too...just not nearly as often.

If the bike has a chain you might think of buying a new chain every 12,000 miles

$50

extra clothing, safety gear

$500

freezing weather brings black ice (a killer) I have ridden home in a snow storm and believe it or not the trip wasnt so bad for my part ,You tend to drag your feet a lot. but if some else slides into you, you arent in a good defensive position.

Nobody said ride it every day, but those rare conditions that you talk about are the same ones that many people avoid...even in cars.

Motorcycles are a great hobby , but they arent very economical in the long run. Especially those that cost in the 20,000 or 30,000 dollar range.

You must be a Harley guy....a very good, brand new bike can be had for <$10k. I got mine used (2002 Yamaha YZF-600R) for $3k. For that price, I can forgo the new tires/chains and just buy a new bike every 10,000 miles and still come out ahead vs. a car.

 

[RadioPatrol]

I ride the subway everyday and am surrounded by other business folks going to work. What subway do you ride?

Rode Metro for 6 months on a contract downtown 18th and H NW

you never get the smelly bums ...........