Comments on: Show your loyalty. Sell your Prius.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:20:20 +0000

Their diesels are quite a bit less and have far better performance.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:38:47 +0000

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:11:31 +0000

funny you should mention that. I won’t get into the contents of my gun safe. Some how I don’t think that’s a good idea these days. But my seed bank I am proud of. I have a huge variety of heirloom seeds as well as hybrid seeds that are resistant to bugs and diseases in my part of the country. I ALWAYS have a garden though it’s not of the scale I used to do when I was young and we were hungry. I “can”, Put-up, preserve all sorts of fruits and veggies. I pickle a wide variety also and make sauces, jellies and jams. My grandparents on my mothers side were orphans who were adopted and raised by the Amish and they in turn raised me. We raised pigs, chickens, guinea hens, ducks and rabbits and grew about everything you can think of.
To this day, in all my 46 years, I have NEVER…EVER known anyone who can flat out cook as good as my Granny did. Man the memories are so great, we were dirt poor but we didn’t know it. Snapping peas, picking spinach, sneaking into the pantry late at night and opening a mason jar of preserved peaches and eating each slice of peach like it was manna from heaven…and it was.
I’d pay anything to go back to those days for a visit.

By: dvdmsr

dvdmsr — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:51:49 +0000

Neil, that was not the analogy I was making, rather I was thinking more along the lines of the impact that a “perceived” failure of policy has on elections. By the fall of 1968, public opinion was shifting against the government’s (Democrat’s) Vietnam policy, which I firmly believe helped Nixon (Peace w/ Honor) win the Presidency that year, and the Rs pickup 5 Senate seats and 4 seats in the House as well. By the fall 2006 public opinion was likewise turning against Bush’s Iraq policy which I again firmly believe helped the D’s win big in 2006/8 elections.

I agree the Iraq war was won; the surge worked. Vietnam was a success only in terms of the lessons we learned and used to prevail in later conflicts, like Iraq. The lesson I learned is don’t enter into a conflict unless the whole country is prepared to do what it takes to win it. If we had done that in Korea, the peninsula would be united and free, Castro would never had made it to the Bay of Pigs, and Saddam would have been deposed in 1992.

Did we win Vietnam? Well, let’s just say that topic is best left to another diary; but I think the existence of Ho Chi Minh City pretty much sums up the overall success of our efforts to contain communism in South East Asia. Do not misunderstand me here, the failure there rests not with the American fighting men, who I agree were very successful in the missions they were called to carry out, rather the failure rests with the policymakers.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:44:01 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:20:20 +0000

gold, silver, pistols, rifles, ammo, and non-hydrid seeds while you keep repeating that.

By: Kaitian

Kaitian — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:59:07 +0000

You’re full of crap. The Toyota Corporation did not ask the Japanese government for a bailout. They have enough funding to hold their own. Unlike the Big 3, Toyota did not post consistent net losses. In fact this year was the first time in a long time for Toyota to have posted a loss however they did not ask the Japanese Government for a bailout. It is a law in Japan that Japanese citizens must buy a new car after their previous car goes past a certain mileage or be taxed heavily. This as a result favors many of the country’s automobile corporations. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Mazda, etc. The loss of the Toyota Corporation in the Japanese market can be sustained as there are many other Japanese automobile corporations to pick up the gap.

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:20:21 +0000

tougher and tougher. But, short of violence, which none of us want, it’s the system we have and we need to use it fast and hard while being on the right and conservative is still legal.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:55:53 +0000

Drive to the health food store! I always see tons of lib stickers there! I have a Honda too it has over 300,000 miles but it has an oil leak I have to put more oil in it every few weeks. Other than the oil, needing new tires and the a/c is broke it has no issues.:)

By: itrytobenice

itrytobenice — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:42:34 +0000

Actually, hubby and I each drive a Dodge 3500 4×4 crew cab long bed. With a spare in the barn. And we don’t carpool. But I’d like to see the price of hamburger if those guys who hate our trucks had to haul hay and livestock in their Priuses.

I’m thinking the fact that I can pull a trailer with 20,000 pounds of hay on it through a field and up the road to the barn and then use the same truck to set the hay out and then use the same truck to haul the stock to town is more cost efficient, both with cash and carbon, than any alternative.

By: bs

bs — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:41:20 +0000

What a load of crap. There is a substantial number (myself included) who simply want good gas mileage to save money. There is no morality involved. Frankly, (as I’ve stated on these pages time after time) I could care less about the carbon footprint of the thing. I’m about the money.

By: rbdwiggins

rbdwiggins — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:16:28 +0000

Buy a Hummer... The H3^x is Bad, and the H3 Alpha is totally made of Awesome. It's extremely patriotic as well. The Hummer is manufactured in America by American Auto Workers, and since it averages 15 mpg, you can be assured that you'll be doing your part to support "Big Oil."

By: Karina

Karina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:22:22 +0000

that is getting eroded so quickly. It’s not so much a problem of lessening the blood flow but finding a place to cauterize before we lose the patient all together.

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:02:36 +0000

competing for the same sales dollars. Ford will realize real quick
just how unfair they’ll be treated. Don’t think for A MINUTE that the unions won’t use their influence with the workers at non gov’t run automakers to make their lives hell and eventually get them flipped over and in the same position as GM and Chrysler.

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:56:36 +0000

but slowing down and lessening the blood flow as best we can is also
important. And there is the chance we might even win a few of them

By: Karina

Karina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:13:56 +0000

will stand strong enough for long enough to matter. As we saw with the SCOTUS this week on the Chrysler decision, it’s not happening. Everyone is running scared.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:15:59 +0000

By: redtillimdead

redtillimdead — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:54:40 +0000

Gm will also make the Chevy Volt Electric car. Wheres Toyotas electric car? GM will sell the Chevy Spark in the US, a fuel-efficent mini car. Why isnt Toyota selling theirs in the US. Get past your false preceptions of GM and Toyota people. Actually do some research and learn about the car industry, and you would realize Toyota isnt the perfect company with a halo around its head. Toyota LOST MORE than GM last quarter. Toyota has worked 2 workers to death in Japan. Toyota make the least fuel efficent trucks and SUVS. GM makes the most fuel efficent trucks and SUVs. GM makes the most hybrids. GM makes the 2nd most fuel efficent mid-sizer, the Malibu, 1st until the Ford Fusion. GM makes the most fuel-efficent compact car, the Chevy Cobalt XFE. GM has a mid-size CUV with better fuel-economy than a compact Toyota Corolla; without being a hybrid. The 2010 Cadillac CTS is expected to get a best in class 28 MPG. The 2010 Chevy Equinox small SUV gets 32 mpg, without a hybrid. GM’s large Chevy Traverse, GMC Acadia, and Buick Enclave have better fuel-economy than the smaller Toyota Highlander, a best-in-class 26 mpg. GM’s Chevy Camaro has 29 mpg with 304 HP. GM got government LOANS, not a bailout!! GM WILL pay back those loans. Do some research on the new GM. They have some of the best cars, bet youll learn something.

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:48:34 +0000

Now that it’s coming out how that this Administration has been strong arming, threatening and criminally misusing government authority “against” privately owned businesses, banks and financial institutions
our voices, votes and dollars will speak wonders in response to their behavior.
There has been some limited legal action against this administrations actions in relation to the auto industry but right now, while their ratings are on the down slope and people are starting to wake up to what Obama’s doing, we need to start using the courts against them. Obama and his administration, it seems to me, have gone over the line many times over in their handling of the economy.
Enough so that a battery of lawsuits might be able to halt or at the very least be able to lessen the damage Obama is attempting to do. Unfair trade violations, tax and regulation conflicts, the Unions involvement and its conflicts etc. Even if we can’t outright win we might be able to hold them off till next election.

By: redtillimdead

redtillimdead — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:47:33 +0000

Thats EXACTLY what I want to do to a Prius!!