which is more important to you?

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which would you choose?

protecting anwr from drilling
12
24%
mandating an increase in mpg performance for the auto industry
37
76%
 
Total votes: 49

Alan Evil
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Post by Alan Evil »

If we eliminated heavy truck traffic from the highways they would hardly ever need to be resurfaced thereby saving precious oil in the asphalt... oh, wait, Big Oil wouldn't make as obscene of profits that way. Never mind.
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ynot
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Post by ynot »

If we eliminated heavy truck traffic, every store shelf would be empty and you would do without everything.
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Post by Paul3eb »

ynot wrote:If we eliminated heavy truck traffic, every store shelf would be empty and you would do without everything.
oh that's fine.. we have computers and phones and, most importantly, money so it's ok. we can pay for everything else. it'll just be everyone else that'll be screwed.. but hey, that's their problem.
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Post by pigsteak »

yup, you got it paul.

so, it looks like the consensus here is that , given two choices, folks would prefer to drill ANWR and make stricter fuel standards. yo liberals, where are your convictions for ANWR? don't let some punk ass poll deter you....refuse to participate....liberate the caribou...stay strong brother....peace to the masses....
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Post by Alan Evil »

ynot wrote:If we eliminated heavy truck traffic, every store shelf would be empty and you would do without everything.
Not true. Trains are more efficient, just slightly slower. It wouldn't take much to make cross-country trucking more expensive than trains and it also wouldn't take much to make trains as fast (for the most part) as trucks. There are still huge urban areas built around train tracks that could easily support the shifts that would require. Anyway, trains are cool.
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Post by pigsteak »

how about every selfish climber in America roadtripping to get their weekend fix quit climbing? that'll save thousands of gallons of gas/oil a year....

never happen, you selfish bastards!
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ynot
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Post by ynot »

You still need trucks to get it from the train to the stores.
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Alan Evil
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Post by Alan Evil »

Ah, but not such big trucks and not going such long distances. It's only a matter of time til most big stores have a rail siding out back again, just like in the good old days.
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jcwhite
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Post by jcwhite »

GE just built a dope ass engine.

https://www.getransportation.com/homepage/index.asp

Sexiest locomotive around. 8)
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Post by Zspider »

I have no problem with them drilling in the ANWR. It's going to happen eventually. I have heard that there's as much oil under that land as there ever was in the Mideast.

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