Posted on 05/20/2009 8:41:42 AM PDT by shortstop
Not if you buy vintage.
America’s corporations went liberal long ago. They fund a lot of liberal causes (including the homosexual lobby) that do nothing to benefit their bottom line for employees or shareholders.
Chains you can believe in.
yep
Isn’t importing a car expensive? I mean aren’t there fees and associated expenses with buying and importing a car that is not in compliance with gooberment rules?
Yes. You pay import taxes at a rate of about 30 percent. I’m not sure but I think the rate for Asian imports might be lower. What our Overlords are doing is to impose a regulatory regime that only affects what they consider to be the “little people” who need constant and pervasive government supervision. The Algores and Waxmans and BOs of the world will continue to be able to drive large, safe vehicles. The wealthy will continue to pick up new cars during their European vacations.
I am actually trying to convince hubby to let me buy an H3 Hummer just to piss off liberals. "But baby...it will be a valuable collector's item one day", LOL!
Give it time, my FRiend, give it time.
Nam Vet
Which brings to mind another point: I may well be tempted to keep my Honda Pilot a few more years instead of trading it in on an Obamacrapmobile. Way to destroy the car industry, Obama.
Just for the record, European cars get better gas milage than the the US will even in 2016 and there are fewer road deaths.
Why? Because the exam requriements for getting a license are more rigorous.
If you have ever driven in Germany and then driven in the US, then you know Americans DO NOT know how to drive. They are rude, and careless and reckless.
The size of the car isn’t the issue, it is the lack of driver education.
This article is absurd. Why shouldn’t everyone drive an Abrahms tank? Shouldn’t Volvo be subsidized. Give me a break. There are lots of good things to critize THE ONE about. Finally doing something about America’s oil addiction is not one. GWB was a coward for not doing this on Sept. 12, 2001.
I usually ignores trolls but please, how absurd. Let the US drill its own oil would solve that problem without central planning in Washington.
Its like the old joke about two guys in a rowboat. A leak appears in the bow, and the guy in the stern says to himself Im sure glad the leak is on his side of the boat...
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Unfortunately, I can’t laugh at that joke. My property fronts on a small river that floods in rainy times. I have actually had several people try to tell me that the reason for the flooding is that the drainage ditches need to be cleaned out! Never mind that the drainage ditches are well above the flood plain and they do their job until the stream floods over them! Some people just don’t have a working brain, the amazing thing is that many of them manage to make a living, get married and raise children all without the benefit of a functional brain.
Not if you buy vintage.
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The price of good used vehicles should take a big jump soon.
Ok, you call me a Troll but let me ask you some fuzzy math: The US has 22 billion barrels of proven reserves. That amounts to 4 years of total US consumption. If there are 3 times as much oil as estimted that means there are 12 years of reserves left. So how does that make the US oil independent? Stop being a stupid member of the stupid party and face reality. Cheap gas is not a fundamental American value. The uniqueness of the US lies in its ability to innovate, not the unrestricted exploitation of limited natural resources.
The real TROLLS and bains of conservatives are those who do not wish to see the world for what it is and only wish to see it for what they want it to be. Santa Claus isn't real my FRiend and the oil you buy funds the terrorists who want to kill you.
I told my wife that, and we’re planning to buy an old low tech vehicle that would be easy to maintain..
The Spike Jones song “Right In Der Fuhrer’s Face” came to mind..
You can make it cheap and quickly, but it won't be good.
You can make it cheap and good, but it wont be quickly.
You can make it quickly and good, but it won't be cheap.
Anyone that tells you differently is a liar.
Chevrolet car commercials 1955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhdUnK2u2g&feature=related
Time to go back to the future ...
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