Quality Control

My wife and I have 3 cars and a motorcycle ranging from 1993 to 2005, we owe no money on any of them and none of them get less than 35 miles per gallon and my MC gets 50. The cars that meet this standard are out there and they don't care, you can't make people care, you can only make the adhere through the use or implied use of force. All this will do is drive an even more significant wedge between the US and its representatives along with sound bites and typical party politics. One day there is the "cash for clunkers" program that will give you 4500 for gas guzzlers, now it is going to cost 1300 more to supposedly be more fuel efficient. Watching politics during the atrocious Bush Administration and now with the absolute junk the current administration is pushing reminds me of the MTV show "The Real World", where everyone is a drunk hooker or man-whore and the only time they take to stop screaming at each other is so they can crawl into bed and make out ( the PG version).

I am not going to pay more, I will simply continue to buy older cars, pay a small amount more on gas and use the significant savings to buy gold and silver. I have put 6000 miles on a car in year that gets 38 mpg with no maintenance other than an oil change that cost me $900 to purchase. it ain't much to look at but my ego can take that it isn't a cadillac escalade.

IMO, this measure has more to do with appeasing special interets groups and creating an acceptance of future protectionism laws that will hurt our manufacturing base further as well and hurt relations with foreign countries.

I was thinking about buying the single most fuel efficient car on the planet, it has even edged out the toyota camry in terms of sales, prepare to be wowed by the "Cozy Coupe"