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You know, the fantasy land where you build progressively bigger and bigger vehicles while the cost of fuel becomes more and more expensive.
Their business acumen is stupefying.
12/04/08
Now that you've jumped on the Congressional Bandwagon i.e. "Bad Automakers... building big SUV's.. Bad... no loan for you!!" , you may want to remember that nobody ever bought an SUV or a big car at the gunpoint. They built what people wanted to buy - as did the foreign manufacturers here in the states - where do you think Toyota and Nissan make their trucks and SUVs?
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*RING RING*
HEEEEY lOOOOOKIEEE MEEEE! IM GREEEN AND CHEAP!
now give me my fucking money.
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"look at me! I can change, baby!"
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And--damn, do you see that Ridgeline on top his head?
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[flickr.com]
Then get your ass over there!
Also, bring your camera.
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Frankly, driving is a poor use of his time. Those windbag senators are pots calling the kettle black. Deficit spending and they get chauffered around like royalty. 'Nuff said!
12/04/08
Driving is a good use of auto exec PR time right now. Either they started driving, or they weren't going to get anything.
Unlike the bankers, who are getting billions without so much as a peep from congress or the populace about accountability or helping the taxpayer or anything.
It's probably because people understand cars and think they understand the industry, but finance just makes them go all woozy in the head.
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- Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
- No, they'd have to have it on a line.
- Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
- What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
- Well, why not?
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Clearly, there's more going on behind the scenes than the average person is aware of, and the end result is that in the U.S., and especially in California, clean diesel still isn't *quite* a mainstream reality (with this Jetta TDI being an obvious footnote). Regardless of how you feel about the Prius (and other gas hybrids), the stark reality is that you have been able to buy one in California since 2001 and use it as a normal car, when you haven't been able to do the same with an oil-burner.
11/20/08
Ground-level ozone is the big reason that CA opposes diesels. Can't say I blame them. While there's still reasonable doubt that human CO2 emissions cause anything at all, it's proven that smog particulates increase emphysema and cancer at higher rates than normal.
I'm a states' right advocate and I support their right to make a choice for what's right for their people/cities. The crappy flipside of that coin is that CA represents such a huge part of the buying market, manufacturers will rarely sell anything that won't pass muster in CA.
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The current crop of diesels are better, but they had to jump through a lot of hoops to get them there (4-cyl with downstream filters. 6-cyl with filters AND urea injection)
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(besides the fact that it is cheaper to buy, and use, a Prius hybrid)
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