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Originally Posted by Palbay
I'm so sick of other people telling me what I should and should not drive..... this stupid drumbeat is getting louder,especially in this age of $4.00 gas.The because " I can afford to drive an X6 (or fill in the blank w/ your favorite performance auto) and pay for the gas" therefore, I must be stealing resources from (fill in the name of your favorite third world country,social organization,school district,et al) mindset is quickly taking over the conversation.... Now is the time to stand up against this mindless drivel.I feel better now!!!  Thanks! PalBay |
The problem is that a significant majority of the population -- fed by a cadre of left-leaning do-gooders -- has bought in to the whole limited resources / CO2 / global warming / alternative energy / ethanol / we're-running-out-of-oil mindset. These people vote. Politicians do what get them votes. So politicians are falling all over themselves to see who can write the most draconian laws to mandate high MPG, low emissions (not a bad thing in itself, but dumb when carbon dioxide is classed as an 'emission'), ethanol-in-gas, and so on, at the same time as they work overtime to prevent production of oil from massive reserves in pristine arctic wilderness, and dump all over Canada for our 'dirty' oil sands.
We can rant as much as we like -- and who here disagrees with what you say, PalBay? -- but it looks more and more as if heavy gas guzzlers such as the X6 are going to become less and less socially acceptable, whether we like to drive them or not. What happens when some bozo California politician manages to implement some kind of gasoline rationing in support of spending billions on hydrogen filling stations? It won't matter how affluent you are, you'll get the same gas ration as Joe Tree-Hugger in his Prius.
Maybe Israel has the answer. They have announced that they are going to build a couple more large nuclear power plants to supply an order of magnitude more electricity, then they will start encouraging the use of electric vehicles through tax breaks and subsidies, gradually weaning the country off their dependence on oil supplied by countries who are not exactly their best buddies. If that means we all get to drive Teslas, maybe all is not lost!