Outrage DuJour
I said the control freaks wouldn’t stop with this GW madness. They want to ban florescent lights. Now they want to ban sports cars.
If one of the more extreme responses to global warming comes true, driving a sports car anywhere but on a racetrack might be relegated to history’s dustbin.
Fast, powerful cars within a few years may be outlawed in Europe, an idea that has been raised ostensibly because Ferraris and Porsches produce too much carbon dioxide. For those who abhor sports cars as vulgar symbols of affluence (along with vacation homes, furs and fancy jewelry), such a ban could be a two-fer: Saving the planet while cutting economic inequality.
Who are these people anyway who decide on behalf of everyone what car is proper to drive? In the U.S. they’re members of Congress, which is considering fuel-efficiency standards that will affect vehicle size. In Europe, it’s the ministers and parliamentarians of the European Union, which wants to limit how much CO2 cars can emit as a proxy for a fuel- consumption standard.
Chris Davies, a British member of the European Parliament, is proposing one of the most-extreme measures—a prohibition on any car that goes faster than 162 kilometers (101 miles) an hour, a speed that everything from the humble Honda Civic on up can exceed. He ridiculed fast cars as ``boys’ toys.’’
Chris Davies is worried about boys toys. I guess that’s what happens when you become a EUnuch.
They will keep banning things until they get to things you love. Watch. And they won’t stop there.
Once you give power to bureaucrats, all they want is more power.
What a crock! Here in San Antonio, the majority of commuters are driving big pickups or SUVs, with the lone driver getting 12-20 mpg...while I drive my turbocharged BMW Z3 and get a lead-footed 28mpg. And some piece of EuroTrash says I’m the bad guy. FU2EU!
Posted by Mike Anderson on 07/11 at 10:34 AMStupid logic of the Day: “such a ban could be a two-fer: Saving the planet while cutting economic inequality.”
Uh, who do they think builds these cars, services them, makes accessories for them, sells those accessories, and so on?
They’ll be widening the economic gap by putting wage earners out of work.
Posted by Thewritejerry on 07/11 at 04:26 PM
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