Comments on: Daily Podcast: Affluenza

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:04:22 +0000

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trusting, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.” – The Rich Boy, F Scott Fitzgerald

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:46:37 +0000

Johnny Canada :

Thanks for that.

Is it me, or does that boy look at the puppies and lick his lips hungrily? Weird.

By: Johnny Canada

Johnny Canada — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:57:41 +0000

As far as puppies with new Fords:

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=LKQ6RsnIT1c

By: automoton

automoton — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:07:48 +0000

Our Little Lord Fauntleroy was utterly inept, and shown the door before be brought the whole enterprise down upon his ignorant, floppy ears.

Let’s remember what the road to Hell is paved with, and clap really loud for whatever Bill Ford does outside the business, and at the same time, give it no weight or attention.

“That’s nice, Bill. Keep playing with the shiny thing.”

Everyone needs a hobby.

By: NoneMoreBlack

NoneMoreBlack — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:07:37 +0000

If we want to reduce gasoline consumption and carbon emissions, the only justifiably efficient policy is direct taxation of carbon emissions. Every other policy is some form of second-best measure, and each one fails in some way at achieving the stated goal in as smooth a manner as carbon taxes would.

CAFE standards simply attempt to force automakers to do what the free market would force them to do anyway if we efficiently priced carbon, except the extra cost of increasing fleet-wide fuel economy is borne by the consumer in the form of higher vehicle prices, instead of being captured by the government as revenue.