Comments on: David Frum: Al Gore wants to ‘take your car away.’

By: Domino

Domino — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:22:48 +0000

I do want to take away your SUV. I want to take away your pickup which has no business purpose.

Why are you all so scared of saying what is necessary: automobiles are a significant cause of global warming? If we are ever to get to the Kyoto goals, traffic must be reduced significantly. This means major mass transit projects over the profits of car companies, unless those companies make the trains and buses.

There are some industries that are evil. Automobiles, coal and oil are the worst. Yes, they create many jobs, but those jobs can be diverted into clean industries. Laying and repairing track. Operating transit. Building wind power. Researching and building solar power.

There is so much that can be done to transition away from automobile traffic. And the end result must be getting polluting vehicles off the roads.

I would hope that Al Gore does want to take away your SUVs. I certainly do.

By: fletc3her

fletc3her — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:25:38 +0000

Oh no it’s the boogie man! Al Gore wants your car! Lock up the Lexus!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:03:49 +0000

What’s wrong with greatly increasing mpg by making electric or electric-hybrid cars? Not enough profits for the OIL corporations? No need to invade and occupy the Middle East? No self-destruction by the greenhouse effect? More American jobs? Sounds good to me.

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:24:15 +0000

If the US automakers had any balz or brainz theyâ€™d be copying/licensing/using the shit out of Teslaâ€™s technology.

Comment by RUCerious

Tesla got his cap stolen and his inventions are now mounted on every home in the U.S. It is called the electric meter.

By: pbg

pbg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:11 +0000

I stood in line to pay for gas at a station here in my town and watched a guy pay for a gallon of gas with a big pile of change. The cashier told me that was happening more and more.

There’s more than one way to take your car away from you.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:09:51 +0000

And probably Frum knows his audience are not thinking, rational adults either. After all, these are the mouthbreathing types who need an authoritarian father figure to tell them what to do, and what to be afraid of.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:06:56 +0000

If the US automakers had any balz or brainz they’d be copying/licensing/using the shit out of Tesla’s technology.

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:00:42 +0000

I dont get it, if your ‘conservative’ you should want ‘conservative’ things.

How is a traffic jam, which Frum wants, apparently, conservative?

They move slow, waste fuel, and make for road rage. I also dont think sucking exhaust is heallthy as automotive air conditioning system dont scrub the air of harmful pollutants.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:00:34 +0000

Comment by bilbobaggins â€” January 28, 2008 @ 8:59 pm

That’s because Frum is not a thinking, rational adult.

By: jb

jb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:59:22 +0000

What ELSE does?

Comment by tokin librul â€” January 28, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

Yes, moving around is good and is a freedom, but there are many ways we could accomplish this without giving up our “free” clean air. Energy independence would give us all more freedom. Clean independent transportation would be true freedom. As it is now we rely on the oil companies, the nations with oil and we pay them for every drive around the block. No freedom comes without responsibility, but why can’t we work at finding ways (mass transit, fuel cells, solar etc.) to move ourselves around.

By: bilbobaggins

bilbobaggins — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:59:14 +0000

Do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? That sounds like something a 12 year old would say, not a thinking rational adult.

By: robbez_92107

robbez_92107 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:58:03 +0000

What ever happened to the electric car?

Oh, yeah – General Motors. How is that working out for them?

By: muckmac

muckmac — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:51:40 +0000

No, sorry everyone, it’s all true. We “Gore-Type Environmentalists” (we refer to ourselves as GTE, actually) have been plotting this for almost a century now. Does no one remember the GTE/Ford riots back in 1908 when Ford first floated his Model-T idea? And don’t be fooled into thinking we were only after the gas-driven models, we were also after Stanley from the moment he announced his steam-driven auto. And we have fought them ever since.

Yep, we have vowed never to rest until all Americans, worker, executive, common criminal, all of them have been stripped of their automobiles. Then we go into Stage 2: denying Americans their right to their legs.

And why? Frum is right again. We hate the suburbs.

Seriously now, who needs The Onion when you have Republicans?

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:50:09 +0000

give you the opportunity to have the ability to purchase a more realistic one that will allow the planet to survive.

Actually, he wants your ‘68 Hemi-Sixpack CHARGER with the 4.93 rear end, and the positrac, and the whole shooting match, and he wants to give you a friction car…but that’s alright…

By: jb

jb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:18 +0000

Neo-Con
Neo-Traitor
Neo-Stooge
Neo-Dunce

Please addâ€¦

Comment by 99Luf Balloons â€” January 28, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

Neo-liar
Neo-scum around the toilet bowl
Neo-Republican
Neo-a$$hole

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:46:44 +0000

Moving around in a gas guzzling SUV does not equal freedom.

Comment by jb â€” January 28, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

What ELSE does?

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:44:07 +0000

I forgot to add. Al Gore wants to take your car…and give you the opportunity to have the ability to purchase a more realistic one that will allow the planet to survive.

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:43:02 +0000

Al Gore wants to take your car…And force the auto industry to realize the opportunity in front of their eyes, by forcing them to have to re-tool to enact friendlier environmental policies, and thereby Actually get a total retooling of their out of date plants, and make them all new like, at the Tax payers (Tax subsidies) and consumers (tax payers also) expense. Since all business costa are borne by the consumer anyways, the auto industry would be forced to come into the 21st cenury kicking and screaming all the way, and then be forced to make gobs and gobs of money, as we all now turn out pruchaces inward to our bretherne american workers, and help lift ourselves back into a world competitive position.
But, of course the auto industry is loathe to do ANYTHING that spends one red cent, even if those cents would be reimbursed through tax incentives and increased American purchases.

By: jb

jb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:41:28 +0000

Moving around in a gas guzzling SUV does not equal freedom.

By: tarazan

tarazan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:41:27 +0000

And Cheney will take your mattress…ha ha ha