Comments on: Senate Passes Landmark Fuel Economy Bill

40% Boost In Efficiency Would Be First Such Federal Law In 32 Years; House Is Next To Act

[adventurepa]

CBS, Where is the story about Chaney and the secret documents he's withholding from archives?

"Republicans complain that the energy bill is tilted too much toward renewables and fuel efficiency and does nothing to boost domestic oil or natural gas production."

The oil companies already said no increased refining because of the bill in Congress.
They are playing with contradictions.
It's all a farce.

[donnie900]

"Lets talk about racism."

"Lets talk about letting women be priests!"

"Lets talk about the Law. And wear de ************** out worse than one headlight."

"Lets talk about philosophy! Yah! Yah.."

"Lets talk about homosexuality."

[donnie900]

"Lets talk about the battle of the sexxxxes."

[rushlimpdrug]

In December, I traded my 55 MPG diesel Golf for a 20 mpg Audi. . . traded my 20 mpg Audi for a 14 mpg Toureg. . . I like a big solid car that goes fast, and I don't want to apologize for it. I used to brag about my mileage to other schmoes, but now I just pass them all.
Posted by downtowner97 at 03:15 AM : Jun 22, 2007

Yeah guys with a small peniz will always brag about their cars. I never had that problem.

[donnie900]

Those oil companies, and those paper companies, and those wood companies, and those jaguar skin companies, are gonna move in and give those people a life. A job. Food on the table. And unless you come up with an ALTERNATIVE! Not no ******** regulation. An ALTERNATIVE! Thats the way its going to be.

There's no "hey, look at me. I'm cool. Do what I do." There's no "the polar ice caps are melting and we gotta do this for YOUR own good". There's only alternative. Which your rich spoiled punk azzzz is capable of. Thats the really sad thing about all this stuff. The people who should be finding the alternatives, are the ones doing nothing but complaining.

[huskerarmy]

Ya got millions of people who can't even find a plate of food to eat everyday, and you're upset an oil company makes its profits.
Posted by donnie900
Keep working at it and maybe one day you'll get the connection...

[huskerarmy]

"I used to brag about my mileage to other schmoes, but now I just pass them all."
Posted by downtowner97
Better hurry... hell is almost filled up with all the bloated, narcicistic neo-cons that even satan can handle.

[acauble1]

If this bill passes both the House and the Senate...

... mileage may vary,

and so will the campaign donations.

[donnie900]

You were always free azzzzhole. Ya just didn't have any girlfriends. And there's a free market out there already. Perfectly willing to accept your alternative hydrogen burning engine. If its competitive. If the ******** thing works. So you ain't gotta make no rules fer anybody. What you gotta do is shut yer stupid god damned ******** big mouth and get to work.

Or I'm gonna kick yer ******** azzzzes.

[donnie900]

Half the ******** latino population in central america under the age of 15 is prostituting because their dads don't have jobs in paper mills.. ya stupid god damned sons'a byytches. Because you "love the rain forest".

Mankind's greatest threat isn't oil, but the god damned stupid spoiled rich punk kid.. Causeless. Meaningless.. Who thinks he knows everything! Killing people..

[donnie900]

Oil men. You know what an oil man is to anybody else but a god damned spoiled punk kid? Revenue. Jobs. Financial security. Ya got millions of people who can't even find a plate of food to eat everyday, and you're upset an oil company makes its profits.

Maybe the rules for you are different than they are in those third world countries. Ever thought of that? No.

[houser123]

Some say this is a do nothing Congress. Mitch McConnell.. take a hike. The votes in the Senate assured that any veto the POTUS may sign will be over ridden. We have at least 60 votes for this measure. A simple majority is assured in the House. Let's see if Mr. Bush elects to veto this one to protect his VP and the oil men from Texas. We should never elect an oil man to the highest level in our country. We see the outcome everyday, huge price increases, subsidies to oil companies even when they post record profits, now we are embroiled in a war for oil some say. We must and we will develop those alternative fuels if we are to survive as a nation and as mankind as a whole. There are no easy answers but this measure passed by the Senate is a step in the right direction. Keep up the good work.

[killtheliars]

What they need to do in addition to this is build a few government run refineries. This way as the oil companies cut production to keep prices higher the govt' can make up the difference ensuring prices stay below a certain level, like say $2.00 per gallon.

[donnie900]

Vetoed.

[radiob-2009]

The Possibilites
A British engineering firm has put together a high-performance hybrid version of BMW's Mini Cooper. The PML Mini QED has a top speed of 150 mph, a 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds. The car uses a small gasoline engine with four 160 horsepower electric motors %u2014 one on each wheel. The car has been designed to run for four hours of combined urban/extra urban driving, powered only by a battery and bank of ultra capacitors. The QED supports an all-electric range of 200-250 miles and has a total range of about 932 miles (1,500 km). For longer journeys at higher speeds, a small conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) is used to re-charge the battery. In this hybrid mode, fuel economies of up to 80mpg can be achieved.

[donnie900]

I actually really like Al Gore's ideas. I saw his movie. And I heard about those ice core samples in Antarctica, probably one of the first. I just don't think that theres any other solution to a problem other than something competitive in the market. And what I mean by competitive is that its a alternative automobile engine that burns hydrogen fuel and has zero emissions, and that can beat a 350 small block on the straight away. Or thats cheaper than regular engine. Or something that allows it to be a better alternative for people besides what a buncha intellectuals are worried about. Thats all.

Once congress goes down that road of telling people what to buy, pretty soon its enormous taxes, and a whole shyytload of useless rules, and a buncha self important azzzzholes feeling good about themselves because they can tell everybody else what to do.

[mh4cbs1]

Toadyosou:

If the worlds population wasn't 6 BILLION (doubled in my lifetime), but was 600 MILLION, we could all drive big cars. But you will have to explain to the next generations why our midwest farmlands was turned into desert.

[panhandlpete]

MPG may be well and good, but only from the standpoint of emissions, for the oil industry will increase the cost of gas to make sure their profits continue. Then when China begins importing its cars via Mexico and floods the US, will their cars have to meet the MPG standards.....yeah....it does not look good for keeping an auto industry here in the US. We've lost everything else, so why worry.

This North American Union or PPA treaty is going to be the final blow to our economy and sovereignty of our nation. It must be stopped! It is being forged without the input or support of the people of either Canada or the US. Mexico is the only one to benefit.

[panhandlpete]

MPG may be well and good, but only from the standpoint of emissions, for the oil industry will increase the cost of gas to make sure their profits continue. Then when China begins importing its cars via Mexico and floods the US, will their cars have to meet the MPG standards.....yeah....it does not look good for keeping an auto industry here in the US. We've lost everything else, so why worry.

This North American Union or PPA treaty is going to be the final blow to our economy and sovereignty of our nation. It must be stopped! It is being forged without the input or support of the people of either Canada or the US. Mexico is the only one to benefit.

[mh4cbs1]

CBS corporate bias shows itself again. They omitted that Big Oil got to keep their BILLIONS in subsidies that they got under Bush, while Exxon makes $40 BILLION in PROFITS by gouging us at the pumps. Took 32 years for standards to be increased, and our corporate owned congress only did it by riping us off by billions $$. Here's what the AP did say that CBS omitted (even they call it 'taxes' not referring to the Bush subidies or windfall profits:

"Republicans blocked one of the Democrats' top priorities, a $32 billion tax package aimed at boosting renewable fuels, energy efficiency and clean energy programs. The Republicans didn't like the $29 billion in additional taxes on oil companies that the plan required to pay for the new alternative energy subsidies.

Big Oil seems to do pretty well here on Capitol Hill," Reid told reporters, making no effort to hide his sarcasm.

Democrats also failed to get a provision that would have required electric utilities to produce at least 15 percent of their electricity from wind, biomass or other renewables after Republicans refused to allow the measure to come up for a vote."

AND SO.. While the planet gets hotter and hotter, the Hummers keep rolling off the assembly line, Big Oil keeps their BILLIONS in windfall profits, lobbyists finance our Corporate-Owned Congress, the corporate media says nothing, and the American public is spaced out on "reality TV"...

Welcome to the new "fasicm with a smile".