-Caveat Lector- >>>You know? Long ago when we had real crises like the oil embargo and people had to line up to pump gas depending upon a bunch of other rules the State imposed (not unlike the State requiring us to use fossil fuels (FFs) exclusively [and how much of that juice that the hybirds run on is generated by FFs?]), I decided that I was not going to play into the hands of the Fuel Fascists (FFss). Since then I have driven cars that meet my needs and not those of the oil company executives.
Just to illustrate how much the Republicans have fallen into the Orwellian frame of mind, Pat Buchanan had a debate with Arianna yesterday on MSNBC and he declared that he was for freedom and his SUV represented the sort of freedom he required. Let's see, being cowed by the oils and therefore the MiddleEasterners to buy a highly polluting fuel and having to be strapped into a behemoth mini-cell vehicle fed by terrorist supporting petrodollars, the likes of which were unnecessary UNTIL they were marketed in the past few years just to stay in the lane with all the other cars that are going five to ten miles an hour during commute (the new "cellblock") times ... let's see ... this is *his* freedom. Times were when the conservatives of the United States could point to a time BEFORE the oil fix when communities and families were better off and better overall. Less anxieties and less fragmentation. But today's conservatives have to have that oil so they can zip and zoom all over the place in their mini-semis. Less time for community and family; more time for cussing out the other drivers. Yahooooeee! THEN Pat insulted the American auto workers by suggesting that only the Japanese or Koreans could build a decent and affordable small car (tell that one in Tennessee and other places where Americans assemble cars with foreign names on them! Ha!). This is the same insipid argument that they used back in 1973 during the embargo when they claimed the Americans couldn't make a good small efficient gas-sipping automobile. Let's see that was in the Nixon days. Where was Pat working then? As for drilling for oil on pristine American properties just to satisfy the SUV crowds' needs, I say *why?* should they be allowed to do that when all they have to do is give up their fetish for supporting terrorists' sources of funding? And as for the SUVs being safer ... for whom? The ones that have the blowed out tires or the ones the SUVs hit during traffic altercations? There are a couple three ways to solve the MiddleEast problem. (1) Continue as we have been. (2) Drain all the countries' oil and "drive' them into impoverishment. (3) Resist their oil and make them subject to the markets, having a lot of oil but many fewer places to sell it. Send the oil executives down the same road as the American auto worker -- to Mickey D's for a job. Or resoling Pat's shoes he would come to use for a good walk to work. There's a lot of freedom in them legs. And a lot fewer Enrons. A<:>E<:>R <<< http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,872014,00.html 4x4s oil wheels of terror, US told Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Friday January 10, 2003 The Guardian The millions of people in the United States who own a sports utility vehicle (SUV) are helping terrorists intent on attacking their country, according to a television commercial by a new lobby group broadcast nationally this week, although one network refused to carry it. It is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a current government campaign which suggests that the profits generated by drug abusers may go to terrorist groups. A man is shown filling up his vehicle while a child's voice says: "This is George. This is the gas that George bought for his SUV." A map of the Middle East showing Iraq and Saudi Arabia appears and the voice-over continues: "These are the countries where the executives bought the oil that made the gas." Over a shot of a terrorist training camp, it says: "And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV." Another commercial in the series shows Americans admitting: "I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country." It closes with the question: "What is your SUV doing to our national economy?" The commercials were produced by the Detroit Project, a new body whose main spokeswoman is the writer Arianna Huffington, once a stalwart Republican, now one of the most outspoken voices against corporate and government malpractice. The $200,000 campaign, which has already stirred controversy, is funded by donations from supporters, including such media figures as the producers Steve Bing and Norman Lear, and the creator of Seinfeld, Larry David. One network, ABC in New York, refused to run the ads. Huffington suggests that some of the country's current problems were related to its dependence on foreign oil. The former owner of an SUV who now owns a hybrid - mixed energy source - car, she said: "We believe that the public is ready to connect the dots ... between gas-guzzling cars and funding terrorists." The SUV has become a subject of national debate almost as potent as the right to bear arms. Those who drive and support them are sometimes portrayed as thoughtless gung-ho Americans, those opposed to them as unpatriotic limp-wristed liberals. The success of the vehicle has been phenomenal in the US, where they now account for 21% of the market: 16 million were sold last year. Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 A<:>E<:>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. 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