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Lining the Pockets of Big Business?

POSTED BY: GEEZER
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 02:00
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Friday, August 6, 2004 3:03 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Kerry's (energy) plan would:
* Provide $10 billion to help auto plants adapt to build high-tech ''cars of the future'' and give consumers a $5,000 tax incentive to buy energy-efficient vehicles.

Why do I get the feeling that if Pres. Bush had suggested this, it would be classified as "Lining the Pockets of Big Business"? Not saying it's a bad idea, but...


"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Friday, August 6, 2004 4:04 PM

RADHIL


Depends.

Bush, in his first State of the Union after 9/11, I believe mentioned giving a bunch of money to car manufacturers to boost research for alternative fuel methods like hydrogen fuel cells.

I was quite all right with that. And I'd be all right with it now on Bush's watch. And I'd be all right with Kerry doing something similar (which is implied by your quoted statement, but not confirmed).

'Course, I don't know if it was ever followed up on with Bush. What he says and what he does tend not to jive.

Radhil Trebors
Persona Under Construction

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Monday, August 9, 2004 9:15 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


One of the problems with Kerry’s plan is that he seems intent on reverting to a socialist standard for environmental improvement. So if Kerry ratifies the Kyoto Accord as he has claimed he would do, then there will be no capital to build these “cars of the future.” And the result will be that this 10 billion will NOT go to environmental improvement, but rather to off set lost sales due to unnecessarily stringent environmental standards imposed by the Kyoto Accord. In other words, this money will go into profit. It's ironic that this money might actually go far further to doing what many Liberal journalists claimed Bush’s Energy Plan was designed to do.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:00 AM

CONNORFLYNN


{sarcasm on} Careful hehe..there are a lot of knee-jerk liberals who visit these boards. Any anti-Kerry comments are viewed with deep suspicion regardless of whether they are supported or not ;)

I feel like the Humans trying to fend of the Borg. I will not be assimiliated hehehehe. {sarcasm off}

In all seriousness..The idea is a good one. The Kyoto treaty on the otherhand **shivers**. We do need to develop alternative fuel sources and the technology to handle it.

However when we do that, we will be the ones blamed for the downfall of the Middle East, because we will no longer need to buy their oil. Maybe the Middle East can start selling sand to glass companies at $45 a bushel, since they haven't bothered to develop anything else except extremism.

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