Dude, WTF???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Whittaker" <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: help me understand US emissions control strategy.(NVC)

> dear friday ranters
>
> canadian speaking here - one who thinks there is very little science and a
> lot of hyperbole in the global warming political movement - having stated
> where part of my foot print is -
>
> and regarding the touted fuel efficiency of vehicles sold else where -
> the else where being a place where driving might be limited to dates that
> match your licence number - -
> protectionist legislation never works over the long term - ..
> and what may look like an aside is actually indicative of why things are s
> out of control --
> last month we sent a payment in the form of a bank draft from canada in
> american dollars to a credit card company owned and operated by HSBC (the
> h
> stands for hong kong)
> the instrument was returned to the issuing bank stamped as uncashable ???
> with out certification ...??? due to the fact that HSBC lacks the
> infrustructure to accept funds drawn on forgien banks ...
> we call .. customer service located in south east asia tells us that the
> instrument is not even recognized as having been processed ... we ask to
> speak to supervisor ... get a guy who is in Ponoma California .. first
> thing
> he tells me is that the instrument is in canadian $$ i tell him that
> clearly
> stated in three different places is the fact that it is in american $$ --
> he
> tells me to avoid future occurance i should send the item to -and he
> starts
> to give me an address -
> as i write it down i notice the address is the same on at the top of the
> returned item letter -
> i say hey wait a minute you are telling me to send this back to where this
> letter came from -
> yes he says -... arrgggg -- then he tells me that a machine processed the
> item and refused it last time -...
> but if i send it to Pomona address a real person will open it -
> i see says i ...
> -- it is no wonder the banking system is coming apart at the seems -
> all we need is one or two experainces like this where the guy on the
> "service end " is tellign the customer that the error is made by the
> customer --...
> systems are designed to benifit the individual at the top of the pyramid
> ...
> never the individual -
> read Anthem by Ayn Rand
> message out
> return to regualr earth broad cast
> :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>
>> I read on MSN's homepage news about Ford having built a 65mpg diesel
>> Fiesta
>> and currently selling it everywhere except the USA.  Their guy states
>> that
>> the US is so anti-diesel that they can't sell those fuel efficient
>> vehicles
>> here.  Yet I hear the US Gov. is considering a 'bail-out' to Ford Motor
>> Company because they aren't selling the P.O.S. trucks and big vehicles
>> they
>> do market here in the US.
>>  Can someone 'splain why it's more "green" to allow a 'regulatory
>> exemption' to SUVs for fuel efficiency standards and a tax break to buy
>> them
>> and then 'over-regulate' diesel vehicles?  Yuh think a 10mpg Humvee or a
>> 9
>> liter Triton V-10 pickup is more "green" or less polluting than a diesel
>> Fiesta getting 65-frikken miles per gallon?   How come our automakers can
>> sell pickup trucks with the same motor you find in long haul tractor
>> trailer
>> trucks (Cummins, Navistar, Allison, etc.) so that Mrs. Rancher can drive
>> down to Wal Mart for a Chinese plastic bucket, or Mr. Macho can run round
>> the freeways all week looking cool in his 'trash can masher' (Wheels and
>> tires so big he can straddle the yellow line and get the cans on both
>> curbs)
>> and yet we aren't allowed to convert our Vanagons to TD power in many
>> states?
>>
>>  These 'allowed vehicles" use up six times as many barrels of oil burned
>> up
>> per mile traveled, and six times as much fossil fuel by-product is spewed
>> into the atmosphere.  It's ok for the gas guzzler to be here, but not the
>> little diesel car? (according to the  corporate whores who write our US
>> vehicle emission standards).
>>
>>  70% of the ROW vehicles on the roads are diesel powered (because it's
>> more
>> fuel-efficient)...What's with these creeps making the rules here in the
>> USA?
>> They stupid?  They greedy?  They think we (the population) here have an
>> unlimited supply of Vaseline and will just stay bent over, taking it for
>> ever?
>>  Rant over..Back to your regular political Palin-tology news now (for us
>> here in the US.)
>>   Don Hanson
>>
>
>
>
> --
> roger w
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