First thing to come to Mind
Lots and Lots of talk about "how do I save gas?"
well ppl .. from My point of view there's a couple options.
First, and this is a personal note, but uhm, can we destroy all
Cadilac Escalades?? Please .. Please .. let's just melt them all down, and
recycle them. Okay sorry, that's out of my system now. In particular,
I see lots of questions going either way about the AC .. Look Ya'll back in the
70's and 80's well went to great lengths to get a few more horses out of our old world V_8's
and one of the things we did was to take the AC units right out of them. This usually got us about a ten per cent increase in horse power. Now, and this is where it starts to confuse alot of ppl, We only would see that increase in power, when we "nailed it" .. meaning when we drove like crazy lead foots. If you've always got to be the first car to the next stop light, and you don't understand that it's okay to accelerate slowly, then sure, leave your AC off. Or, if you just have to drive an old carberated V-8, from like the 60's, or 70's then by all means do not use the AC! But if you do those things anyway, then for whatever reason, you probably don't care too much about the price you pay for gas. Heck ya'll back in the day, there were those of us who got our cars so souped up that we had to use Jet fuel, sure it wasn't legal, or smart, but wow did we get where we were going fast .. LoL .. heck that tree never even saw some of us coming.
But seriously on the part of our gas prices, it's really just a self perpetuating cycle, sure the rich are getting richer, sure the "dubya" is in bed with big oil. But it's our nature to allow the rich to get richer, it is indeed the ultimate goal of a capitalist society to allow, heck even to encourage this kind of behaviour. Call it "economic darwinism" if you will.
Can't follow, okay.. look at gas as a drug, and look at Exxon/Mobil(E.M.) as a drug pusher. . . and to complete the metophor, let's say that the "dubya" is a corrupt police force. As long as we keep buying, needing, "fiending" for the drug, and as long as the corrupt police force gets his cut, the drug pushers are going to be in the school yard selling us their "product" for almost whatever price we want. So back to my first request, could we please destroy all cadilac escalades? And while I'm at it, could we please remove all big "thumping" sub woofers from every vehicle that doesn't have a nascar sticker on it? Okay, fine, let's compromise, let's just lobby for any vehicle that doesn't get better then 25mpg highway to either pay very high taxes, or be removed from the road as soon as is legistlatively possible?
As long as we keep buying, the pushers will keep selling. If we could all use more wisely, hopefully we'll be able to start being charged more reasonably?
well ppl .. from My point of view there's a couple options.
First, and this is a personal note, but uhm, can we destroy all
Cadilac Escalades?? Please .. Please .. let's just melt them all down, and
recycle them. Okay sorry, that's out of my system now. In particular,
I see lots of questions going either way about the AC .. Look Ya'll back in the
70's and 80's well went to great lengths to get a few more horses out of our old world V_8's
and one of the things we did was to take the AC units right out of them. This usually got us about a ten per cent increase in horse power. Now, and this is where it starts to confuse alot of ppl, We only would see that increase in power, when we "nailed it" .. meaning when we drove like crazy lead foots. If you've always got to be the first car to the next stop light, and you don't understand that it's okay to accelerate slowly, then sure, leave your AC off. Or, if you just have to drive an old carberated V-8, from like the 60's, or 70's then by all means do not use the AC! But if you do those things anyway, then for whatever reason, you probably don't care too much about the price you pay for gas. Heck ya'll back in the day, there were those of us who got our cars so souped up that we had to use Jet fuel, sure it wasn't legal, or smart, but wow did we get where we were going fast .. LoL .. heck that tree never even saw some of us coming.
But seriously on the part of our gas prices, it's really just a self perpetuating cycle, sure the rich are getting richer, sure the "dubya" is in bed with big oil. But it's our nature to allow the rich to get richer, it is indeed the ultimate goal of a capitalist society to allow, heck even to encourage this kind of behaviour. Call it "economic darwinism" if you will.
Can't follow, okay.. look at gas as a drug, and look at Exxon/Mobil(E.M.) as a drug pusher. . . and to complete the metophor, let's say that the "dubya" is a corrupt police force. As long as we keep buying, needing, "fiending" for the drug, and as long as the corrupt police force gets his cut, the drug pushers are going to be in the school yard selling us their "product" for almost whatever price we want. So back to my first request, could we please destroy all cadilac escalades? And while I'm at it, could we please remove all big "thumping" sub woofers from every vehicle that doesn't have a nascar sticker on it? Okay, fine, let's compromise, let's just lobby for any vehicle that doesn't get better then 25mpg highway to either pay very high taxes, or be removed from the road as soon as is legistlatively possible?
As long as we keep buying, the pushers will keep selling. If we could all use more wisely, hopefully we'll be able to start being charged more reasonably?
posted by rjanis | 11:44 AM
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