http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/suvs/ en-us Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:42:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369661/posts Environmentalism: As polls show belief in global warming is dropping, a new study suggests that dogs and cats, like people, are a plague upon the earth. They say people should have edible pets. Here, kitty, kitty. A new Pew Research Center study conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 says the number of Americans who think there's solid evidence the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades has plummeted from 71% in April 2008 to 57% today. Over the same period, there's been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369661/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324586/posts Ranking is based on the base model MSRP. You should be able to negotiate a lower price for the base model. Also, remember if you add additional features, you’ll could pay more. Top 10: http://www.cardealerreviews.org/?p=116813 cars http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324586/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:53:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031537/posts XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 30, 2003 20:42:05 ET XXXXX HOLLYWOOD DEMS GATHER FOR 'HATE BUSH' MEETING AT HILTON **Exclusive** Top Hollywood activists and intellectuals are planning to gather this week in Beverly Hills for an event billed as 'Hate Bush,' the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! Laurie David [wife of SEINFELD creator Larry David] has sent out invites to the planned Tuesday evening meeting at the Hilton with the bold heading: 'Hate Bush 12/2 - Event' The message reads: "This is the most important meeting you can attend to prevent the advancement of the current extremist right wing agenda.... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031537/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:00:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254716/posts I wonder how many people Obama killed yesterday. Arguably, it was in the tens of thousands. With one stroke of the presidential pen, surrounded by lackeys on short leashes, he designed the automobile of the future. No more will Detroit make cars according to people’s tastes, needs and market demand. Now, we will have Obama cars. And why not. Hitler designed cars, why should our Fuehrer be denied the pleasure? Without congressional approval, without explaining it to the people, without trying to build public support, Caesar has declared that vehicles will get more gas mileage and give off less carbon... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254716/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 15:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2254266/posts (0) An SUV remains embedded in the wall of a fast-food restaurant after it slammed into the building in Renton early Tuesday morning. The crash happened at the Burger King at Sunset Boulevard North at Northeast Third Street shortly after 3 a.m., leaving a gaping hole in the building. The SUV will not be removed from the building until engineers can inspect the building's stability. No one is allowed inside the restaurant for safety reasons, police said. Renton police said the crash occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle as she came careening down the hill on Northeast... The News Tribune (Tacoma WA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2254266/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 23:20:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251364/posts Enlarge ImageFickle. The predicted coming solar maximum (red line) compared with the past three solar maxima (blue line). Inset: The sun's face, showing dark sunspots. Credit: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Fans of solar storms and power failures are in for some bad news. Today, a panel of the world's solar scientists announced that the next solar maximum--when the sun's irradiance, solar wind, and sunspots are most volatile--is not coming as soon and will not be as strong as predicted. That means fewer solar storms, which can cause power outages here on Earth. For the past 3 centuries, the... ScienceNOW Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251364/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 05:24:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234448/posts Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r) There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time. The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting. The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period. Last... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234448/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143324/posts In the social circles of the New York Times editorialists, it's OK to have one kid. Two is pushing the envelope. Three or more is tacky, and a threat to the survival of the planet. That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built. Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady suggests that as a condition of the Detroit bailout, "Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date." NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143324/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:46:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134084/posts Repent, all ye owners of Suburbans, thou drivers of Explorers. Mend thy ways, ye Escalade-loving louts! Take heed of the warning the prophet Mika has vouchsafed unto you: greedy thou art; verily, destroyers of the environment be thee! Oy. Mika Brzezinski was on quite a roll this morning. On the one hand, free-marketers would find much to agree with in Mika's arguments. As noted here yesterday, whereas Joe Scarborough has been vigorously advocating a federal rescue of Detroit, Brzezinski favors bankruptcy over bailout. But Mika couldn't help muddling her message, delivering a jeremiad against Detroit for producing larger vehicles and... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134084/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:06:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993146/posts A New Zealand man got the fright of his life when a runaway SUV crashed into his house and knocked him off the toilet, a newspaper reported Friday. The vehicle had been parked with its emergency brake only half on, and rolled backward down a 32 foot bank into the house Thursday in the southern city of Christchurch, "The Press" newspaper reported. Police said a building contractor working next door had parked the vehicle at the top of the bank minutes earlier. "He came back to his vehicle and found it next door, basically," Christchurch police Sgt. Kim Reid was... WWSB http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993146/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983115/posts An explosion has been reported in central Stockholm. Police confirmed on Sunday morning that a bomb squad was at the scene and that no casualties had been reported. Neighbours reported to police early on Sunday morning that a large explosion had rocked the area around Surbrunnsgatan 4 in central Stockholm. Twenty windows were blown out as result of the blast. According to Eva Nilsson at Stockholm police something exploded under a parked car. "To the naked eye the car is in principle intact." A large area was cordoned off by police after the explosion, and Surbrunnsgatan was closed off between... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983115/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968172/posts BAGHDAD — The Ministry of Interior (MOI) received nine armored Toyota Land Cruiser SUVs this week as part of its investment in the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The total value of the shipment was valued in excess of $1.082 Million for the nine vehicles. The vehicles were refitted with armor plating and other custom features in Dubai. The vehicles will be used by the Iraqi Police and other directorates in the MOI. “We have waited for the arrival of these vehicles for a long time,” said Col Ishmel of the MOI. “These vehicles are very important to us in... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968172/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927011/posts Courts: The often-loopy 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is now giving orders to the White House. A three-judge panel ruled Thursday that federal fuel-economy standards for light trucks and SUVs must be tougher.The unanimous decision was made in favor of the 11 states, the cities of New York and Washington, and various environmental groups that sued the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over fuel-mileage standards issued last year. Using the save-the-planet argument, the plaintiffs claimed corporate average fuel economy requirements should be higher. They dislike the federally mandated 1.5-miles-per-gallon increase to 24 miles per gallon for 2008 through 2011... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927011/posts#comment Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:49:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926278/posts San Francisco (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out planned federal fuel economy standards for many sport-utility vehicles, minivans and pickup trucks, ruling that the Bush administration failed to address why those so-called "light trucks" are allowed to pollute more than cars. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals also ruled that the standards, which were to go into effect next year, didn't properly assess the risk to the environment and failed to include heavier trucks. "The ruling does two potentially very big things," said Brian Nowicki of the Center for Biological Diversity, which led the assault... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926278/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904307/posts CLIVE, Iowa - Republican Fred Thompson launched a low-key pitch to evangelical activists, a constituency his strategists said remains available despite months of intense courting by his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination in the state's leadoff precinct caucuses. "This is his natural constituency," said strategist Rich Galen, who pointed to some polls ranking Thompson as high as second in Iowa, though he was opening only his second campaign visit through the state since he joined the race earlier in the month. Thompson mingled with activists at the annual dinner of the Iowa Christian Alliance, patiently shaking hands with most... AP via WCF Courier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904307/posts#comment Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861698/posts CBS) LOS ANGELES A 70-year-old Tarzana man riding a bicycle Wednesday was struck and killed by an SUV, authorities said. Joseph Miller was riding in the 3500 block of Reseda Boulevard shortly before 9 a.m. when he was struck by an SUV driven by a woman who was uninjured, according to city fire official Brian Humphrey and Capt. Ed Winter of the county coroner's office. The circumstances of the death were under investigation. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861698/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1856645/posts China's Brilliance BS6 is a recent entry into the European market, positioned as a premium-style import sedan at a budget price. Well, after seeing the videos of the car undergoing crash testing using Euro NCAP guidelines at the ADAC (Germany's AAA, essentially) test center, one thing's certain: buyers get what they pay for. The BS6, as currently constructed, appears to a complete piece of crap. The horrifying 40 mph offset frontal crash test video shows damage that can be described as catastrophic at best. The A-pillar collapses and folds up like a cheap suitcase, forcing the driver's door to pop... autoblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1856645/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853361/posts Leadership: The new U.N. secretary general invokes a Twinkie defense, excusing Islamofascist genocide in Darfur by blaming it on global warming. Forget the Chinese weapons. According to Ban Ki-moon, your SUV is responsible. IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853361/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840623/posts If California wants to achieve its goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 to fight global warming, it must find a way to cut down the biggest source of those pollutants: cars, trucks and other motor vehicles. Even though transportation contributes 41 percent of greenhouse gases, our society is too geographically dispersed and mobile to realistically expect that we can dramatically reduce the number of miles we drive, ride and fly. So that means our vehicles need to become far more fuel-efficient. The less gasoline per mile that a car uses, the less heat-trapping carbon dioxide it spews... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840623/posts#comment Sun, 27 May 2007 19:01:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837377/posts A Vallejo woman reportedly suffered minor injuries Friday when her car was rear-ended by an SUV driven by a state senator talking on a cell phone while driving through Solano County. State Sen. Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, was driving her new state-issued 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV at 10:40 a.m. on eastbound Highway 12 at Beck Avenue when she rear-ended Ellen Butawan, 31, of Vallejo, California Highway Patrol Officer Marvin Williford said. Butawan's 2005 Honda sedan was slowing behind a 2003 GMC Savana van that had stopped at a red light, Williford said. The impact forced Butawan's car into the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837377/posts#comment Mon, 21 May 2007 20:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837373/posts Don't you dare call Mika Brzezinski a mere newsreader. Beyond simply enunciating words off the teleprompter, the MSNBC host doesn't hesitate to share her [left-leaning] views with viewers, too. Take a segment that aired at 3:35 pm EDT today on the topic of gasoline prices. Introducing the discussion, Mika expressed her shock and outrage that sales of SUVs have recently risen despite relatively high gas prices. Pouted Mika: "what's wrong with these people? Why do they need them?" Mika's guest was Tyson Slocum of the liberal Public Citizen group, which is headed by Joan Claybrook, a former Carter administration... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837373/posts#comment Mon, 21 May 2007 20:37:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836825/posts So that the sun would rise and the rain fall, the Mexica and Maya peoples of Meso-America once cut out countless living hearts on stone altars or tossed maidens down wells. Their priesthoods convinced them that the gods who controlled natural forces were propitiated through blood sacrifice. Most ancient cultures, if only symbolically, practiced something of the same. A belief in or impulse to sacrifice seems inherent in the human race. This may be Darwinian: Without parental sacrifices children would not thrive, nor without the blood of warriors could the tribe survive. Some concept of sacrifice is at the core... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836825/posts#comment Sun, 20 May 2007 20:23:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772352/posts Mars Global Surveyor MOC Observes Changes in the South Polar Cap: Evidence for Recent Climate Change on Mars [snip] New MGS Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images have provided a startling observation: The residual martian south polar cap is changing. The fact that it is changing suggests that Mars may have major, global climate changes that are occurring on the same time scales as Earth's most recent climate shifts, including the last Ice Age. MOC images of the south polar cap taken in 1999 were compared with images of the same locations taken in 2001, and it was discovered that pits... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772352/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:31:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707717/posts Caption: IU Bloomington geochemist Simon Brassell (right), Penn State sedimentologist Michael Arthur (middle), and Tohoku Univ. sedimentologist Harumasa Kano (left) inspect an ancient shale aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Ancient rocks from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suggest dramatic climate changes during the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era, a time once thought to have been monotonously hot and humid. In this month's Geology, scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research present new evidence that ocean surface temperatures varied as much as 6 degrees Celsius (about 11 degrees Fahrenheit) during the... Indiana University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707717/posts#comment Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:15:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675779/posts As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer, the World Health Organization reported...As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday. It found that 48,000 deaths every year are caused by malignant melanomas, and 12,000 by other kinds of skin cancer. About 90 percent of such cancers are caused by ultraviolet light from the sun. Radiation from the sun also causes often serious sunburn, skin aging, eye cataracts, pterygium -- a fleshy growth on the surface... United Pro Smoker's Newsletter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675779/posts#comment Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:51:39 GMT