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Efficient cars will get best parking in C.R. parking ramps
The Gazette Online ^
| Nov 22, 2009
| Rick Smith
Posted on 11/23/2009 10:53:56 AM PST by PLK
CEDAR RAPIDS Drivers of hybrid, alternative-fuel or zero-emission vehicles will get the best parking spots in the citys Fourth Avenue and Third Avenue parking ramps.
The preferential treatment to encourage the use of energy-efficient vehicles likely will be adopted for other downtown parking ramps as well . . . go to:
http://gazetteonline.com/top-story/2009/11/22/efficient-cars-will-get-best-parking-in-c-r-parking-ramps
(Excerpt) Read more at gazetteonline.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: climatechange; energy; globalwarming
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To: sheik yerbouty
Mine is a gas/air hybrid!Mine is a triple threat gas/air/oil hybrid...
To: PLK
Why does anyone still shop in cities anymore? Honestly. Even if you do not have a hybrid, you still have to pay to park, dodge parking tickets, pay higher sales taxes and deal with lots of other BS.
Online shopping looks better and better each day.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:21:11 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: PLK
That’s smart! Leave the gas guzzlers to be the ones circling endlessly looking for a parking spot!
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:23:08 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: dangus
Is there a bonus for wearing Berkinstocks?
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:24:47 AM PST
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: wysiwyg
Maybe you should retrofit a Hummer with a diesel-electric powertrain from a freight locomotive. It is, after all, a hybrid system.
To: Nervous Tick
After seeing my last Prius with a "Yes We Did" sticker...
One marvels at the thoughtfulness of having them park in clusters.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:32:09 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
("Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow!")
To: pnh102
they might be going to work or a play or court.......for any number of reasons other than shopping. perhaps a tea party has attracted them to down town......in fact I found myself parking in one at a tea party just last summer......hadn’t been in a parking garage in years.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:34:58 AM PST
by
tioga
To: wysiwyg
Seems to me that a Hummer would need
two of those parking places.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:37:15 AM PST
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: PLK
To: Senator_Blutarski
What about a natural gas vehicle powered by chili and beer produced methane?
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:39:55 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: PLK
As these are public, tax payer funded parking facilities, how does this discrimination pass the Constitutional test of Equal Protection?
To: PLK
In my naiive and wishful thinking, I keep imagining that soon I'll wake up from this nightmare, scraming "noooooooooo" to the top of my lungs, and I'll still be back in a time when America made sense.
I'll get up, start my big V-8 Ford, and drive to my steady, secured job where I have medical coverage that I pay for, and I can utilize my guarantee of free speech and right to religion without frothy-mouthed democrats screaming unfair everytime the TV comes on.
But, that's just a dream...
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:45:04 AM PST
by
FrankR
(SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
To: DungeonMaster
Thanks for the ping. Although I live in Cedar Rapids, I think the last time I parked in a downtown parking ramp was around 10 years ago when The Doobie Brothers were playing on Mays Island.
So, this is just one more reason to tell the off-grid, free-loving, sandal-wearing, bong-sucking, rarely-bathing, tofu-eating, microbus-coveting, earth-worshipping, whirled peas visualizing, tree-hugging, hookah-toking, hemp-growing, koolaid-swilling, Nader-voting, Lennon-singing, herb-squeezing, ganja-rolling, solar-collecting, foil-ovening, cave-dwelling, peace-signing, backpacking, brokebacking, flag-burning, quiche-gumming, Volvo-loving, hybrid-humping, earth-shoeing, God-hating, gun-grabbing, pony-tailing, thumb-sucking, navel-gazing, Obama-fawning, granola-crunching, earth-first vegan hippie commie deadhead losers on the Cedar Rapids City Councilespecially that deer-in-the-headlights moonbat, Tom Podzimekthat I don't plan on spending any discretionary funds in downtown C.R. anytime soon.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:46:44 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
To: Nervous Tick
Take the LL Cool J route. Start driving one of these and pull up to front:
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:48:24 AM PST
by
Clock King
(There's no way to fix D.C.)
To: PLK
How long until someone who can’t afford one of these status symbols sues for discrimination against the poor?
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:48:54 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: sheik yerbouty
There are lots of other hybrid cars. Mine is a gas/air hybrid!Make yourself a fancy sticker (Gas/Air or Gas/Oxygen Hybrid) and park it there.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:50:45 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Clock King
LOL! I think you’re on to something.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:52:00 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: Nervous Tick
This is great! Puts all the cars that need keying in one convenient place. I would never "key" a car but that's the first thing that crossed my mind too.
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:54:14 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
("Get lost, Mitt. You're the Eddie Haskell of the Republican party." (Finny))
To: PLK
Efficient cars will get best parking in C.R. parking ramps Vote the bums out of office!
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:56:59 AM PST
by
RJL
To: LonePalm
With luck, my F350 long bed would occupy 4!
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posted on
11/23/2009 11:59:22 AM PST
by
benewton
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