It has been widely reported across the news wires that Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has released a financial regulation reform bill. Through tough regulation, it will seek financial stability and consumer financial protection and justice.
We in the working/middleclass are being stripped of what little equity we have accumulated. We are forced to accept sub-standard wages, less employer benefits and in millions of cases...under/un-employment.
You can bet, the republicans and blue dog democrats are already planning on voting NO and introducing countless amendments to weaken or water down the legislation. You can be assured, they are planning endless delays. They will follow the same game plan as they did and are doing with health care. Joined by the wallets, the republicans and blue dog democrats will be relentless with their shady tactics.
We OFA members must become active again and counter their corruptive efforts. We cannot and should not expect President Barack Obama to fight this second front alone. It is time to gather the troops and bring re-enforcements to the already tired progressives on capitol hill. Stand-up and plan a strategy on how to bring aid to our fellow progressives. I still have hope, I know you do to. Stand-up, smile and be proud of what you are doing. You are not alone.
A very good email to recieve, thanks to all who are making this happen ...
"if enough good people do nothing, the other side will win"
Larry --
This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. This is history.
... Tonight's vote brought every American closer to the secure, affordable care we need. But it was also a watershed moment in how change is made.... In the final phases of last year's election, I often reminded folks, "Don't think for a minute that power concedes without a fight," and it's especially true today. But that's okay -- we're not afraid of a fight. And as you continue to prove, when all of us work together, we have what it takes to win.... Let's keep making history,President Barack Obama
Yeah, probably it's not the most original blog entry of the comunity, but I still wanna bring it up for the gazilionth time: the healthcare reform, you all know is the most dreadfull subject to be spoken about right now. It divides republicans specially, but also democrats, and suddenly everybody starts googleing it and trying to get as much information (true or fake) about it, not to decide their position, not by the inocent curiosity or moral standard of being informed. Nah. To be able to throw a big "Now here you got! Fuck you yeah!" to the oposite side. What the hell are we doing? What do we get? We're not even doing anything to solve it out or help in any way, we're just fighting over some immaginary cup to win God knows what.
So, you see, this is my point: I'm portuguese, am 16 years old and know very little about how the american health care works. I just know it is a private healthcare controled by ensurance companies who don't really give a crap about their clients and only want to get the biggest amount of money they can reach their hand to without loosing much money. That leads to situations like when someone finds out that has cancer and still doesn't have a health ensurance, it becomes extremely hard for him/her to find an ensurance companie that is willing to spend $700 or more a month to save their costumer's life. I know that many people in America don't want to have a health ensurance because they just don't have money to afford it and even if they did, it would still be risky to fully trust in it, as the insurance company could get ridd of the costumer as soon as it realised it was being too dispendious. I don't know if it's because I live in Europe, but I find just impossible to believe that american citizens have pulled this off for decades without a single change, or a will to change. I cant' understand how republicans (like Palin), BEING AMERICAN CITIZENS, can stand in the way of a considerable rising on people's quality of life... it just seems unreal to me. I stoped complaining about Portuguese healthcare system when I heard about the american one. It's crazy.
With all this blah blah blah, I meant to reach this: America needs a change. And I thing that everybody, and I mean everybody, even republicans and conservative people all over America have realized it deep inside, although their old-fashioned and surpassed vision of things still moves them towards nowhere. Politics is about mind-control. It is, and no one can say it isn't because it is. Everywhere. It's about sending a message to people that they know they want to hear, that can make people say without a blink "That's the guy". That was the master reason for Obama's victory; people feel a change inside their hearts and strike to reach it. But republicans keep on filling people's head with bullshit and completely turn reality into whatever it's better to distort the message, and we all see it everyday. In order to be a real change, there must be a real effort to join and start working in a plan to rebuild the world we live in, and everybody can help. It's a question of hope. That's where Obama is definately right.
Today we held the memorial service for my 24 year old daughter in-law and her unborn baby girl. Jenny did not have health insurance and was not properly treated at for-profit ER. Within 24 hours she went to the next ER and was diagnosed with severe double pneumonia, Septic shock and Respitory failure and laid in an ICU unit for the next two months at a cost of $22,000. a day.
When there was no hope of survival we removed Jenny from life support and said our good byes to this beautiful young woman. She left behind a husband (my son) and a two and half year old daughter. Jenny's crime and death sentence was that she could not afford health-care.
In the richest country in the world our Jenny died.
Don't allow another family to suffer the pain that we have. Stand up for the Public Option, stand up for what you believe in, get out of your chairs, your house, your comfort zone and speak out for this injustice. In the richest country in the world Jenny died....don't let there be another Jenny..
President Obama,
You were elected with the greatest wave of hope that I have seen since the election of President Kennedy...
...and now I feel terribly let down.
You have allowed, yes allowed the radical right to capture the emotions of this nation.
Although your negotiating skills are important; although your intelligence is important; although your organizing abilities are important; the most important ability you have is the ability to inspire.
You have not been using that ability lately at all. You have gotten sucked into the endless chess game of power and politics, and you have neglected your constituency, big time!
I listen to the news and the talk shows with dismay. I have been to a town hall meeting on health care with Lynn Woolsey. The passion and fear of the radical right was prominent, although not in the majority. It is hard to believe that so much credence is given to such outrageous lying. The right wing does not approach this subject, or any other, as far as I can tell, with logic or facts; its approach is on a crazy version of faith. It is like people who twist the bible to support their hate and then say, "The bible says it and I believe it." They forget that the people who hated Jesus were the ones who upheld the letter of the law, but not the spirit; the ones who were judgmental and divisive, not the ones who believed in love and community.
The greatness of the United States was NOT achieved by people acting alone, as much as independence is prized here. It was achieved by people acting together. People harvested their crops together, raised barns together. People helped each other. They were good neighbors. We developed a system of free public education, so all children could be educated, not just those of the rich and powerful.
Respect for the United States in the world was not born of military prowess, but of respect for the generosity, caring and fairness of the American people. It was because, at one time, we took the high road, the road less traveled!
Now we have fallen. We take the low road, talking about the necessity for something we don't call torture, but is. We kill, not to protect people from tyranny, but to protect *our* resources, even if they are located in the countries of others.
I find it so hard to believe, President Obama, that you seem to be cooperating with those who are so short-sighted as to believe that the well-being of the United States rests with military domination.
You talk about health care, but you have given away everything important that you might have done for health care. You talk about health care costs, but you are no different than President Bush in your spending our hard-earned wealth on death, on military adventures and military toys. Do you hope to save on health care and give those savings to the military?
Is it time for me to realize that I have been had? That in handing you this election, the American people have been had? Where is the man I voted for?
Yes we can...what? We can sit by while you allow the military-industrial complex and the insurance vipers to destroy America? I don't usually use that term, America - it applies to pretty much the whole western hemisphere, but I use it now, for the idea of American. The idea of people living together in freedom and peace, in community, caring for the well-being of all - not just our families, not just our town, not just our state, but everyone, everywhere. I thought we were nice people! What happened? Tears come to my eyes as I write these words. What happened?
I could understand the trend under President Bush - but you?
I know you cannot single-handedly do it all. But you have ceased to be a leader, because a leader inspires. A leader calls to the best and highest in us. The majority of Americans responded to that call when they voted for you. They were overjoyed at the opportunity to put their energy into positive endeavors at last.
You are gone, it seems. You have gone over to the fraternity of the rich and powerful.
I am dispirited, left behind, holding the (empty) bag of hope, while the mean-spirited rejoice.
This movie found it's way to me and I haven't even watched but the first 15 minutes of it and it hit me that this would be something that all American's might want to see right now. It's a tribute to the people of New York City and how they "Came Together" after the 9/11 events, using John Lennon's words and music. I can tell it is very uplifting and emotional. It was broadcast live on October 2, 2002. I don't know where I was then but I was asleep and too wrapped up in my own little life garbage problems to know it was happening. I'm wide awake now and I believe, as a nation, we could use a LOT of uplifting RIGHT NOW. It would be a huge reminder of what the people of our great nation did as they came together after 9/11 and we can do it again. Today, it seems that our nation is falling apart and we all need this reminder. I highly recommend to every American that they watch this video as soon as possible. Give it a shot, you might be happily surprised.
Peace, Love and Light,
Nancy Freemanilene@reikifree.com
I love this country. I always have. I love the rights and freedoms that living here affords me. For example, this very blog's existence is a tribute to the things that the constitution and Bill of Rights have afforded me as a citizen of this great nation.
But, I get very tired of a few things, and this felt like the proper forum in which to vent them.
I'm tired of hearing people proclaim, generally in voices tinged with rich Southern judgement and hatred, that this is the "Greatest nation in the world." This is a good country, a great country at times, but not the greatest in the world. We've all got value, and our position as a super power is quite limited in its timeframe. We need to wake up and realize that we are only as good as our treatment of other nations and other cultures. Our interaction with the rest of the world is what makes us great, and by that definition, we've been slipping slowly into a quagmire of indifference and ignorance. In fact, by that standard, I think that this country looks anything but great.
I believe in Barack Obama because, during his campaign, and before his campaign even started in fact, I began to feel something for this country I had never felt before. I felt like this country could finally be a force for good in the world. Instead, I've become sad at what I've witnessed.
People have been ranting and railing against these election results in ways that I never would have dreamed of, even when Bush was completing his reign of terror. I was told over and over that my opinions were unpatriotic and told to step down and shut up more times than I can count. And yet, when our president gets elected there are campaigns, protests and a group of people trying to convince us that the man we elected is not an American citizen in order to get rid of him. Ridiculous, low-intelect and ill-informed garbage. It's disheartening.
Anyway, with the latest wave of attacks on healthcare reform, I find myself searching for my UK visa application once again. The truth of the matter is this, folks: All people who pay taxes and live in this country have the right to go to a doctor when they're sick. And not just a free clinic doctor who doesn't care. No. A real doctor who wants to help. A real hospital with good equipment. They have the right to pre-natal care, to crisis-counseling, to get help when they can't see a purpose to getting out of bed in the morning, to findreason to put down the bottle, the joint, the pills, to learn to stop cutting themselves, or throwing up after every meal. Children should not be an individual state's responsibility. I have yet to hear a single argument against this policy that isn't selfish, greed-motivated, or full of ignorant, paranoid delusion about what this bill would really do. We need to stop letting other people do our thinking for us. We need to start reading and watching and listening and forming our own opinions. This country does need to step it up and start caring about each other. We need to stop thinking about everything as "not my problem," and start thinking about what we'd do if it were our problem. Not everything has to affect us directly for it to be "our" problem. Anything that impacts another citizen of this country is "our" problem. I don't care if we're talking about healthcare, gay marriage, or recycling. The lack of social conscience in this country is disturbing and, quite frankly, depressing. This is our nation, our land, and our world. We need to take responsibility and have some pride of ownership.
If we were really the greatest nation in the world, it seems to me that we would have figured this out by now.
"This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change."
HOW DO WE PAY FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION MANDATE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
Somebody asked the chief engineering officer of BEE, “POPLUV THE PAYGO” …”Is this just another APE idea?”
American Politrix Enterprise is alive and well. There is a civil unrest among the American people about the whole idea of change, as they see or perceive and believe, things are actually going the way of “spreading the wealth around” by the Obama Administration.
“JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”... “NO WORKER LEFT BEHIND!”… “NO TAXPAYER LEFT BEHIND!”… “NO HOUSEHOLD LEFT BEHIND!”… “NO AMERICAN LEFT BEHIND!”… 304 MILLION AMERICAN PEOPLE STRIVING FOR A MORE PERFECT UNION…
“POPLUV THE PAYGO”
This is what needs to be said in response to the outrage over CHANGE – Change You Can Believe In! ... says the spokesperson from NESS – the National Economic Security Service. NESS is a non-partisan independent free enterprise estate trust of the American people, the free sovereign beneficiaries of a capitalist free market enterprise system.
What’s in a 5 syllable slogan that triggers instant economic stimulus or security income payments and derivative income payments from the Global Derivatives Market?
The Global Derivatives Market is a dollar-based financial trading market for central bank financial contract obligations. Derivatives are contracts derived from economic activity and leading economic indicators.
“POPLUV THE PAYGO” …is first a reminder of what time it is with the general circulation money supply… Create consumer demand for Federal Reserve Bank Notes to generate economic stimulus payments to American taxpayers and households, at least through the duration of the U.S. economic recession.
Once the economy shows signs of real GDP growth and job creation, consumer demand can be adjusted to generate economic security payments.
After all the outrage over how change is unfolding in America, the natural order of the universal law called CHANGE rules and takes advantage of “a teachable moment” of how to get things done in Washington, D.C.
The Democratic party as the super majority must enable the American taxpayers with the opportunity to profit from contributing there net earned income up to 100% in exchange for an economic stimulus payment equal to twice the amount of the net earned income contribution towards the national budget of the U.S. up to a maximum contribution of $5 trillion dollars in Federal Reserve Bank Notes.
This civil liberty already exists says the spokesperson from the National Economic Security Service (NESS). Two (2) free enterprise economic development models have been designed by BlackSunWheels Economic Engineering.
Both institutional economic enterprise models, the American Currency Board and the United States Currency Board are accessible by the American taxpayers and households to provide for the general welfare of the United States.
American business enterprises based in the United States can sponsor the United States Currency Board. The American Currency Board is exclusively for individual American taxpayers and households.
There are 50 billion financial unit shares of economic resources (fuser) immediately available to 138 million American taxpayers. 114.8 million American households in the U.S. are eligible for both – Economic Stimulus Payments and Derivative Income Payments from the Global Derivatives Market, a dollar-based financial trading market utilized by the Federal Reserve Bank to monetize credit lending transactions.
The Federal Reserve Bank Note is designed for the general circulation money supply – paper money for the demand deposits of M1. Liquid cash money instruments. ‘POP’ Public Obligation Paper; financial credit lending debt exchange units.
United States Dollar Funds includes coin and paper instruments. The currency board utilizes public laws enacted by Congress to effect risk-free, tax exempt, financial equity trading fund with fixed exchange rates that transforms the American taxpayers and households into a self-financing social order of economic production.
The U.S. economy will be changed into a self-financing "pay-as-you-go" consumption economy says, the spokesperson for BEE.
Every unit transaction in equity trading fund creates financial unit shares of economic resources – fuser, which is also called ‘LUV’ … Lawful Unit Value of U.S. Dollar Currency equal to United States Treasury Notes, readily available from TreasuryDirect.gov.
United States Treasury Notes are equal to the dollar face amount of minted silver and gold bullion coin; one ounce weight and content guaranteed and backed by the United States of America.
American Eagle Bullion Coin; one ounce silver and gold pieces – 1 Dollar face amount for Silver coin piece - .999 fine pure silver; 50 Dollar face amount for Gold coin piece - .999 fine pure gold.
The American Eagle Bullion Coin program is public law enacted by the United States Congress to pay revenues and profits through the U.S. Treasury Department towards the national budget and government debt obligations.
The American Eagle Bullion Coin program makes the currency board a government fiscal tool that shapes free market demand for Federal Reserve Bank Notes used in the production of United States Dollar Currency equal to United States Treasury Notes and based on the value of silver and gold bullion coin, says the spokesperson for BEE.
As for “T-H-E-PAYGO”? Simply risk-free and tax exempt income opportunity for the working class. The principles that effects a national unity founded upon TRUST – HOPE – ECONOMY; transparent “pay-as-you-go” balanced budget fiscal policy.
“POPLUV THE PAYGO” is how we pay for the General Election Mandate of American voters that want CHANGE. Financial stability and economic prosperity. This is the change the American people deserve.
So, my fellow Americans, after all the fussing, cussing, shouting, pouting, ranting and raving, ask the question - Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire? Smoke it over in your mind - contact esp_ness@hotmail.com to get more information about how we gonna really grind with the American Currency Board and the United States Currency Board.
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I stare out from my home in Southern Wisconsin, over the magnificent desolation of the United States of America. The moon landing, which occurred as I was standing at a huge television screen in Disneyland...my first outing from the hospital after becoming ambulatory from my wounds received in Vietnam, seemed to go a long way toward making up for a really lousy nineteen sixty-eight, and the few years rotten which had proceeded it. There was hope that hot July day. There was celebration. There were some damn good reasons to dig in and participate in my culture and in life itself. And what have we, just now, right out there beyond the panes of my window? I am living in the best financial time of my life. I have never been more successful. I am, in years, well advanced in wisdom, having made so many mistakes that I just had to learn from them or die. And here I am. What do I lack that I had when I was back in that amusement park, my wounds still seeping, my one year old daughter gurgling away in my wife's arms. I had no job and no prospects of finding one. I had an apartment with two months of rent due to a kindly old and gentle landlord. Yet I had great high hopes, and a sense of participating accomplishment. Those guys on the surface of the moon, a quarter of a million miles away, were beating new trails for me and about me. Things mattered. There was 'magnificent desolation' on that rocky airless body, but there was a great future on planet earth far below.
Even Charles Krauthammer, a man whom, like Bill Bennet, I have vilified over these past few years for being a self-serving, silver-spooned, big mouth, possessed of little real life experience, seems to 'get it' when it comes to what I am writing of. Where the hell has out hope gone? Why have we allowed our leadership and our media to treat the future of humanity, and our culture, as if it is simply another sound bite? How do we get our "Mojo" back? Yes, I am back to discussing the electronic medium of television as part of the great evil here. We have allowed this channel into our hearts and souls to become the purveyor of our belief systems. And that medium is all about sales. Pure and simple return on the investment of a dollar is the only thing it is about. What sells ads gets on the television and stays there. You might as well redefine Fascism using only that one word: Television. The companies that can afford to buy the time get to shape the programming. They determine what programs their ads will run during. They decide what news programs will be supported by their ads. Who but they can spend three million dollars for a small bit of time for an ad on television? And so we have Fascism, which was a word coined prior to WWII to describe society run by corporations and business alone. It was an evil sounding word created to describe just how unjust and cold a culture can be if it is run strictly for commerce and by people who respond only to financial concerns. Have you watched that television over the past six months and viewed bankers? Have you watched our government throw trillions at these 'fascists' to little or no effect, other than that they take the money, declare more 'profits' and then wait for the next 'bailout?' You are watching fascism unfold all around you.
Krauthammer, in his column today, did not indict the media. He blamed us. We are weak. We do not understand, and without his saying it directly, we are stupid. We, the audience of that television media conglomeration, is whom Charles is referring to.
Were you alive when men walked on the moon? If you were not alive yet, do you still thrill at the idea, the videos and the interviews with the people who went there? That feeling of nationalism, Americanism, and humanity that comes over you is the feeling I want to write about. I want to believe that we can get it back. I want to believe that we can take this whole financial mess and turn it around just because we want to. I want to believe that we can go after these banking and investment thieves and take that money back from where they have sent and spent it. I want to believe that the worker in this country is our hero. Those guys on the moon only got there because of unions, scabs, workers working for little and workers working for a lot. And the public that sent them up there is not, and was not, stupid. We were just joined in a cause then. And now we are alone. We all sit in front of that tube and watch alone, or with only a small group nearby. We are not together on anything except hope. And fear about our future and the future of our families and friends.
We should have rebuilt those goddamned towers and built them bigger and better. We still can. Screw all the plans and the private investors and City of New York. They are part of us too. Let's build real airplanes, tough, modern and economical, which we can fly without taking off our shoes to get aboard or huddling afraid, with our little plastic baggies of toothpaste and makeup clutched to our chests. We can go back to the moon. Big time. And we can do it in a lot less than ten years. And we can do in such a manner as to make our own children stand there at Disneyland, like I did that day, with little or nothing except an overwhelming feeling that they are going somewhere with a bunch of winners. We owe it to these kids and the one's coming. We owe it to the world, and to all those people out there counting on us to be what we, indeed, really are. We are a singularly great culture that came out of the muck. We are made up of ancestors who fled prison, execution, famine and disease to come here. And look what we have become out of that! We have become a people who can do anything. We are the only people on earth who can right now. If we will.
Now we need to get off our craven little asses and get busy. We need to make our great leader, and yes I believe that Obama is all of that, give trillions to these projects. We can even throw in highway bridges and the proper generation of intelligent energy. There are no limits. Trillions for these things and no more for any banks. Not one damned cent. If I lose my accounts and my cards, well, I'll be right there with you...and, if I have to go back to Disneyland at my age and stand there with nothing again, then I will do it, if I can watch that giant screen and see hope, pride, and a future projecting out of it and deep back into my hurting soul. Are you willing to risk it and stand there with me?
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I'm learning. After Camp Obama, I became full of hope. The stories of the people warmed my heart. I am fairly young and as my last blog stated, "Not so political". But for the problems ahead, it is compassion that is needed. I'm pleased with the outcome so far and appreciate the knowledge of the OFA workers. We all are passionate about serving. I never thought a girl like me would have an interest in POLITICS...
Summer? Becoming political? YES. ^_^
If we could somehow get these people concerned in this article here called STIMULUS WATCH: $25 check may cost you food stamps and somehow get them to see that stories like one called Promises Promises are caught in a much worse situation then we can begin to change things in a real way.
In this article it mentions how the Indian Health Service Clinic diagnosed a little 5 year old girl with depression when she quit eating, walking, and complaining of pains in her stomach you can begin to see where the anger and the feeling of being Invisible comes from.
Compassion begins when you can see another person or race as real people too with real feelings and real lives. So many in America need to develop this truer understanding and realize the anger stems from there being no reason it started in the first place except as a group you made a choice, a bad choice whose consequences are very real to those forced to live with this lack of true vision where the horror they are experiencing for the first time is daily life for others.
You can help make them visible again by contacting your Congressmen, your local papers, your friends and family, your coworkers, etc. and exclaim loudly that you support Indigenous rights and demand they do too. It is the start needed to change things for the better.
Thanks for reading about something that I feel needs to be spoken of every day until real change occurs...
Maria
Barack Obama is a welcome breath of fresh air as well as a beacon of hope. However, less that 150 days into his regime, it's becoming clear that along with the "hope" will come great disappointment. I believe that American citizens, holders of many ideals for a culture, were generally disheartened by the actions of the last administration. What might they be hoping for from this new gentleman and his entourage?
Possibilities include (in no particular order):
When President Obama took "Single-Payer Health care" off the table, gone was the hope that this was a boat-rocking administration. Obama may be treated kindly by history for making changes that deal only with emotional "wedge" issues; put a woman here, a hispanic there, a black there. These can be admirable, but substantially window dressing. Putting on the Supreme Court, a judge with a 51% chance of voting for an aggrieved citizen over an abusive corporation, is courageous.
Hope means rebuilding New Orleans levees to withstand only level three hurricanes would be a funny Saturday Night Live skit if it were not true. Why is it we are not preparing for a level five (like the one that did all that damage?) Giving the wounded homeowners a cheap trailer is better than nothing, but it should be recognized as just that. The fact that it is years later should be another embarrassment to the Greatest Nation on Earth.
Hope means tax breaks to the most profitable corporations in world history makes no sense while 50 million Americans have no health care and about the same are experiencing regular hunger. Cheers to "The Biggest Loser" TV show for feeding millions of people, as well as all the churches, foundations and end-hunger groups that perform so admirably day-after-day. But how do we build up a trillion dollar excess, then go to war in order to give that trillion and several more to a few hundred US corporations, and plead "got no money" to starving, undereducated, underfed, under-employed citizens. We do it with elected officials whose loyalty is to those corporations.
Hope means if you need ten million dollars to get a senatorhip in DC, you can get it from the US government! Or you can do business as usual by appeal to Big Oil, Big Defense, Big Health Care and sell your soul to interests other than the US population.
Hope can mean many wonderful things. It can mean an end to the embarrassment to Americans horrified that their agents are torturing and kidnapping. Or it can mean only that the criminality of the past eight years will be dialed back some.
Hope can mean that a savvy politican, used to Americans sitting quietly, will hope he awakens a sleeping tiger, and will be able lead the way to a Renewed America. An America with a Constitution in use, with true concern and generosity for its citizens. Where will our Hope take us?
LeftCoastJim
Hemi’s, Mopar’s, Chevy, Ford, Roush, Shelby, Challenger, Mustang, Camaro, Corvette, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston martin, Porche, Bentley, Lexus, Acura, and other cars; sorry if I didn’t list them, will soon be dead. Obama has issued a mandate that forces auto manufacturers to create fuel efficient cars. Well most won’t be affected because they are foreign cars but U.S. made vehicles must meet the stringent 35.5 mpg limit on passenger vehicles. What does this mean to you, you ask? You won’t be able to have those Shelby GT500’s or Camaros that pump out 500+ horsepower anymorel. You can’t even get a decent luxury v6 that makes more than 300 horsepower. For example, I owned a 2003 honda civic ex; 5 speed manual. If I slowed down and went speed limit I might get close to 40 mpg. Not to mention it was a coupe. Small, compact, fuel efficient, aerodynamic cars will be our future. Car guys weep along with me as we see super cars slowly go by the wayside. I don’t want a Prius. I don’t want a Insight. Both of which are good cars by the way. But don’t fret, there is still hope. There are sports cars that use fuel cells and diesel hybrid technology out there. Not to mention Tessla has an all electric sports car. What I’m trying to say here is, the old ways have died. The new ways are just arriving. It is still too early to see what the future would be like, but I definitely know there won’t be any more 6.0 liter v8’s coming outta the good ole’ U. S. of A. American Muscle, meet green. Being a big car guy myself, trust me I LOVE CARS, it’s sad to see that is going away. But for the greater good. Just go buy a classic, fix it up, pass it on to your kids, and keep it in the family like it was your family jewels.
Might be something we will drive in the future. World's smallest car.
PC Childs, commented some gibberish on my site that almost threw me into a frenzy. OMG did he not read the post? Is he just babbling away at me? Wait, did he almost call me an idiot? Well the point is, everything he said didn’t make any sense at all if you read my entire post. I’m sad that muscle cars will be going away just because I enjoy a nice American made muscle car. Most car guys would agree with me. But this pansy drives a 1986 VW with a 1.6 liter engine and he has the nerve to say I know nothing about cars. He’s the idiot for blasting me about new technology when hes in a 1986 car! Mercedes has a fuel cell sports car, Tessla has an all electric sports car, Honda has three concept fuel cell cars and electric sports cars and thats just some of the auto makers in the hybrid sports car arena. Mercedes has an hybrid suv that drove across Africa!! Never heard about that did you PC Child. There are motorcycle makers in California that are making all electric motorcycles. Even if you didn’t want a sports car or motorcycle, I can hypermile my 3.0 V6 coupe up to 45 mpg. So take your little 1986 1.6 liter engine that gets 50 mpg with old technology, and I’ll get my 2003 3.0 V6 with 45 mpg car and I’ll laugh at you in my luxury car all the way to the gas station. Oh by the way I give props to VW for making a 250 Mpg vehicle. It’s not as new as his spiffy as his 1986 VW but well, decide for yourself. Take a look and comment which car you would like to take.
Here’s some stats about the new VW Extreme 1.0 Liter car. The VW 1-Liter, developed in a wind tunnel, has a very narrow and very flat body configuration that necessitated tandem seating for the two occupants. Measuring in at 4.1 feet wide, 11.4 feet long, and just over 3 feet tall, the car features an amazing drag coefficient of just 0.159…even more wind-cheating than the slippery GM EV1 electric car’s 0.19 Cd. With its 235 mpg fuel economy, it can travel 400 miles on its 1.7 gallon fuel tank…all the while achieving a 75 mph top speed.
PC Child’s 1986 Golf is a POS. You guys comment and vote please. FYI this post was in response to my Car Culture Post Here.
A world hope.
Greetings from Italy.
