Quote Originally Posted by Trinity View Post
I think you are right on one point. We do not need the Global Warming to see the american corporations falling into bankruptcy. This is already done, and this is not the fault of the environmentalists. I just hope you will like to ride in a japanese or a korean car.

What a nightmare!



Anyway, we still have a window of ten years for moving in the right direction. With you or without you.

Trinity
With an increase of restrictions on environmental policies, it will cut into the profit margins and on customer's pocket books. So current car emissions standards in California is a lot stricter than the national standard, and California doing really hot now, are they not? I bet Arnold has balanced and even saved the great state of California billions of dollars! NOT. He is driving it to the ground with his leftist "moderate" mentality. If a business is going to make more environmental friendly products and create even more environmental friendly work places, it is going to have to purchase new equipment and parts from its venders. If you already have paid off an older technology that works well, then be forced to add more debt by newer restrictions... it is going to cost money. It would be like an old air conditioner that has another decade of running efficiently with proper maintenance and then a government en***y steps in and says the newer standards for air conditioners are better and so make it mandatory for you to purchase or get slapped with a lawsuit should someone with asthma callapse. The government's litigation and en***lements outprices the pork barrel spending, newer restrictions are just going to increase the burden more. Again, if you want a snowball effect, you start with the small goals that can be achieved first rather than throwing all the money away on propoganda efforts. Government is not the answer, letting them encourage by relief, not taxation and spending, would help make the market look at alternatives with profitable results.

I drive a Nissan, very reliable, and made in the South in Smyrna, TN. You know what the big three seeking for bailout have in common? They are unionized!