








Reagan v. Bush




II. Obama Follows up With Stricter Standards, but New Incentives







III. Speech to Call for $2B USD in Research Grants





Argonne National Lab
President Obama's call for vehicle research funding will be held at




IV. CNG Tax Credit Proposal Revived



CNG Ford Truck




Source: The Detroit News

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RE: Taxpayers money
By JediJeb on 3/17/2013 1:40:08 PM , Rating: 2
ps. I live in Norway, have a almost twice average income, my wive makes reasonable close to what i get, we can afford to drive a new gas guzzler car, if we want to, we just hate to trow away money on transportation.

I respect your beliefs and do now wish to be negatively argumentative as some. What you and I both agree on is the last part there, now wanting to throw away money on transportation. For me though if I can purchase a car that uses more fuel, but the price of the car is low enough to offset the amount of extra fuel it will use, I am still saving money on transportation, just not at the fuel pump

As for saving oil I think we should also look to using renewable oil such as soybean oil for fuels and to make plastics and such instead of just crude oil. Many will complain that we are then using food for fuel, but we don't eat much of the soybean oil, it can be used as a fuel stock and the remainder of the soybean used for food. Corn, soybeans and many other plants along with algae can be multipurpose is the same way.

As for the government being what should force us to move to different vehicles, why should they? What is the government? The government is not some all knowing entity, it is simply people, people that are just as fallible and susceptible to mistakes and any other citizen. Government has a disadvantage over a normal citizen in that it is more of a target for the temptation that leads to corruption. Citizens should be allowed to rule themselves, but for that to be effective the citizens need to be well informed and educated on all facts. Of course well educated and informed citizens are the enemy of those few who lust for power and control, so when those people come into control they tend to suppress what truths the citizens are allowed to know, even the truth of exactly how much oil the planet has as a reserve and how long it can last. The same has happened with making nuclear a dominate power source, the truth has been withheld and the scare tactic beliefs of a few have been allowed to be the dominate false truth that has been propagated to the public.

Governments should exist to be the vehicle through which all citizens are enabled to rule themselves, not as a ruling entity made up of a few elites.

RE: Taxpayers money
By Reclaimer77 on 3/17/2013 1:51:25 PM , Rating: 1
You're wasting your time, he's been so inundated by Collectivist euro-style Socialist garbage, there's no soul inside.

People like him genuinely scare me. They are like soulless shells of former human beings. With all the good parts scooped out and thrown away, replaced by a hive-mind like consciousness.

Is he even a real person? More like a robot. Happy to live his life and let the Government "take care" of everything for him.... Sad, it's really sad.

RE: Taxpayers money
By michael67 on 3/17/2013 4:54:22 PM , Rating: 2
I get a lot voted down because i say things that are unpopular in the US.

You get voted down all the time because your just a hillbilly troll that knows shit about the world.

RE: Taxpayers money
By Reclaimer77 on 3/18/2013 5:30:01 PM , Rating: 1
Yeah yeah. Don't go away angry Michael, just go away.

RE: Taxpayers money
By michael67 on 3/18/2013 6:55:34 PM , Rating: 2
Your the one thats starts trolling and starts calling names, instead of even trying to see other peoples views, and even less to try to respect them.

So i can only see you as a close minded hillbilly troll, that only lives in his own realty distortion field.

And i can only feel sorry for you, that FOX is your only source of information, and because its on FOX it has to be true. ^_^

RE: Taxpayers money
By Reclaimer77 on 3/18/2013 8:34:23 PM , Rating: 2
You're so wrong, I DO see your point of view. It's just wrong.

How am I being close minded? If you said I should pour gas on myself and light a match, and it would be good for me, I'm not close minded if I refuse. Your opinions are the same way. Your ideas are terrible, they've been tried before and failed nearly everywhere. And in my own country I'm seeing those same 'awesome' ideas cause massive pain and suffering.

Look up the 20'th century, aka the utter failure of socialism to bring prosperity. The bigger the Government, the harder it's people fall.

And you can call me a troll all you want, but the fact is we're having this discussion because YOU repeatedly attacked my country for no reason. I was personally insulted, you're damned right I'm going to tell you to your face.

