Comments on: Dodd: Auto Industry Bridge Loan Should Include Financial Industry Regulation

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:35:45 +0000

Your friends don’t know how to operate a clutch properly…

By: Otay

Otay — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:39:14 +0000

Dodd is absolutely correct about needing financial regulation and the lack of oversight of the bailouts. But why the heck didn’t he and the knuckledraggers in the senate think of this before they voted for the bailout? Particularly when 85% of their constituents and nearly all economists warned them that the bail-out was a mistake?

And why the heck did Obama select Geithner, when Geithner has gone right along with Paulson in promoting this insane bail-out?

The dimwittery of the Dem party establishment is a constant source of amazement to me.

By: Adie

Adie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:46:03 +0000

Oops! You caught me there. I have no doubt at all you probably are correct. Cars are not my focus. I want wheels that will get me and what I have to carry to my destination and back home, safely and efficiently. I’m not a car buff. My elderly little Toy. serves well for such limited expectations.

Speaking of “remotely fun” things, does Ferrari at long last have a hot hot car that doesn’t stall at every stoplight? Or, was that just a nasty, unfair rumor?

[apologies; some of my best friends are car buffs.]

P.e.a.c.e. Bro. We live in a semi free society. ;->

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:01:22 +0000

The only remotely fun thing Toyota has right now is the Lexus IS, IMHO…

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:55 +0000

Corker wants the Union to abandon all their gains of the last century. The Conservatives will not be happy to the USA achieves Free & Fair Trade. Unfortunately, their conception of Fair Trade involves driving down American wages until we achive parity with Chionese Labor.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:23 +0000

It’s an hour later and Corker is still going on and on while Rome burns.

By: Adie

Adie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:11 +0000

Yeah. even we non-mechanically-inclined (just me, not labeling anyone else)
find ourselves falling in “love”, in my case - the sheer rock-solid reliability, and adaptability of our little car, plus it’s perky-feeling gear ratio (my sonny says), and the way it allowed us to avoid needing a truck. You should have seen us heading to the county fair in that lil’ thing when the “kids” were young. It has earned its keep many times over. Now that our animals are all gone, it delivers the stray couch or desk, boxes & boxes of books and sundries, recycling et al.,,

AND it even serves as the family billboard, with catchy ACLU ads, Wilderness Society & Conservancy, PBS & Music Conservatory window stickers, “Bring em Home” yellow ribbon. I suspect it has a certain, don’t-tread-on-me, but DO-support-worthy-causes rep around the area. It’s also almost guaranteed not to be stolen, heh.

By: Twain

Twain — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:28:40 +0000

Eli is upstairs.

By: WebsterStatesman

WebsterStatesman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:56 +0000

I am a (not so young)photographer and when I began the flash units I used needed a battery pack I strapped over my shoulder and weighed 10+ lbs. Today I use 4 AA NiMh batteries that provide many more flashes, weigh a few ounces, and can be recharged a thousand times without developing a memory. So I don’t buy that there are inherent limitations to battery power.

I’m surely no engineer or scientist, but it seems common sense to move away quickly from a fossil fuel that is limited and fouls the air.

Maybe there is some compromise between “drill, baby, drill” and the twinkie power advocates?

By: aliasofwestgate

aliasofwestgate — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:20:39 +0000

I miss my 93 Geo Metro. It’d still be running if a pothole hadn’t ate it and totally bent the frame beyond all repair. It was humming along at almost 190K at that point, and i was getting 45mpg on the highway, closer to 30mpg in the city. *sighs* My new car gets me 30mpg highway, but the city miles kick my ass gas wise. I held out for as good as i could get in my meager wages, at that.