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Old 11-03-2008, 05:36 PM
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No Roger, it was a Federal mandate that moved the auto industry. And we don't live in a dictatorship, so it wouldn't be an Obama or a McCain mandate. It would be a properly enacted Federal law with a long phase-in period.
Indeed it was. After long and thorough analysis on both their parts, with clear objectives well established long before there was a law. When Obama stands before the crowd and lays out just how things are gonna be, does that sound reasoned? Has this been the subject of extensive conversation between the industry and his office? And, if it has, shouldn't that have been at least mentioned? The principal objection here is the authoritarian, heavy-handed delivery - and that didn't come from McCain.

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If it truly proved to be impossible to find a way to either use clean-coal technology or a phase-out, and to meet our energy needs, that law would be rather quickly repealed. !
Mmmm...just like Prohibition. What'd that take? - 18 -20 years? But I agree, finding themselves without microphone power or television availability would motivate politicians with resolve.


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People need to lay off the hysteria and THINK rationally!
Beginning - with ALL of the pols. Especially these two.



-Roger