Posted by Haltse on December 1, 2007 – 9:23 pm
There comes a time when I am rather upset at living in a forty year old house that has quaint ideas on how electricity and plumbing should work. A roof that thankfully is exposed to few sustained rain storms and a fleet of aging vehicles that are run till they drop( I know I tried to buy a new car last month but I just can’t get over how pathetic the process was and until I have a valid business going to take all the fun car credits on it’s just not going to happen.
Back to the housing. I bought what I could afford. What an asshole! Google “foreclosures” in their news section and you will see state after state trying to put protections in place to stop people that over extended themselves on their mortgage. Poor dears were tricked into thinking that a house
Oddly in most cases the foreclosure procedure is set by.. the state in question that’s berating every other party bar those that bit off more than they could chew and their own rules of how to kick people out. What they would like to do CA and MA is to have credit counselors talk with people , paid for by? oh go on guess. They would like to license loan originators since we all know that more regulation of the type that allowed this bullshit to occur in the first is all that’s needed. I’m not sure a Gov certificate stops fraud any more than licensing hair dressers guarantees a nice haircut or that taxi drivers will use their signals. It sure as hell doesn’t stop the fraud on the poor buggers that actually pay their taxes.
The price to play is getting harder to justify as time goes on.
Posted by Haltse on December 1, 2007 – 11:56 am
Talk about inaction, it’s not so much an efficiency issue for cars as protecting the remainder of the US auto industry.
GM has a pretty good “world engine” have had so for a while and a similar diesel variant that without dressing a truck frame up as a SUV’s have their place ( I know I recently got my first one but for quite interesting reasons) but as the answer to a question ” best way to commute/ shop for a small family that doesn’t hunt, hike, camp e.g loves concrete” are a really bad choice.
* Erin’s crash on the bike left her unable to get in out of a lower vehicle on the driver’s side and about the only thing that was feasible turned out to be suv’s without a high sill. Attempts to get a new vehicle were stymied by sales staff with an inability to work this out and that alternative vehicles , that they had in stock, wouldn’t be viable. Didn’t stop them calling though.
It would also be nice if the media stopped pretending that a US gallon of 3.79 litres is the same as the UK gallon (4.54) and even nicer if they identified the difference as primarily being taxation and the behavior is not that euro’s are more enlightened or better moral stewards of the environment just they’ve been bludgeoned into appearing such:)
What a fuel efficiency hike means for drivers – Dec. 1, 2007
Those are the likely outcomes now that Congress has decided to increase the national fuel efficiency standards to 35 miles a gallon by 2020, from the current average of 25
