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Originally posted by Nic Name
Are you suggesting that tougher fuel consumption and emission standards are unpatriotic?
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We know today's vehicles are high polluters. We know this because of the air (see that Image of the Day picture) and because cars consume (waste) so much gasoline (energy). Then instead of looking at the overall numbers, spin doctors would have us compare percentages of pollutants of 1970.
We know that current technolgy is not being used by so many automakers. For example, instead of making cars lighter, they lied; claiming that lighter cars are more dangerous. Instead of making cars with standard fuel economy, they installed 1960 technology engines to sell trucks as cars - to avoid 1990 technologies.
Name a patriotic American. Ben Franklin? Why? He invented things like eye glasses. Discovered things like electrcity. He set new standards for international diplomacy. Created publications. In short, he innovated. He advanced mankind. He pushed out the envelope. He is a benchmark for an 'American patriot'.
An American president subverts the government, lies to the people, promotes an oversea war based on lies and coverups. Is this an American patriot? Of course not. Did he innovate? Did he advance mankind. Did he push out the envelope. Questoned is what we define as an 'American patriot'. Nixon never qualified.
'American partriots' are not those waving a flag. 'America patriots' need not even have American citizenship or have ever visited America. The principals of America are innovation, advancement of mankind, and going where no man has gone before. A classic example of an 'America patriot' is Madame Currie - born in Poland and lived in Fance. She set new standards for science (and women). That is the real defintion of an 'American patriot'.
An 'American partiot' car company would be innovating. It is the anti-American turn in Ford Motor company that resulted in those violent fights between Jacque Nasser (stifle innovation) and William Clay Ford (advance mankind). All cars can easily obtain low emmissions - and higher gas mileage that means even lower emmissions - and still make a profit. That is what Honda does. 'American patriotic' car companies innovate. They have no problem exceeding yesterday's standards - which is what all great Americans must do.
When I started driving, standard large cars with V-8s did 18 MPG. Today's large cars, of same weight, don't even do that! Is that what an 'Amnerican patriot' would advocate? Of course not. We have gone back to the myopia of the 1970s. Too many actually accept the status quo - as the enemies of America have done throughout history. Some are actually fooled into thinking that cars currently have low emissions. Cars emit less than 1970 BUT they consume more energy and must do years 2000 standards. An 'American patriotic' car manufacturer routinely demonstrates that low emissions and higher mileage is current technology - despite outright lies from a Republican Congressman who says otherwise.
Let's move on to what will be the next arguement. If we made low emission, high mileage vehicles, then automakers could not earn profits. Honda is listed in JD Powers latest survey as the lowest cost manufacturer in the world. Why? Lower emssions and high mileage has proven all through the 1900s to mean that cars cost less to build. 'American patriots' understood this long ago. They are the innovators who made America great. These facts should be common knowledge to those who aspire to be 'American patriots'.
Some people are naive - brainwashed by purchased politicians who again say, "If we increase gas mileage standards, then we will all have to drive Pintos". While fools said this, 'American patriots' designed standard size cars that now get mileage equal or exceeding to a Pinto - about 21 MPG. Is this good enough? Not according to the definition of an 'American patriots' because patriots never stop pushing out the envelope. - advancing mankind.