Re: [FWDLK] FW: [FWDLK] All this late model and future discussion...

[Mike Apfelbeck <moparmike72@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must be one of the riff raff since I own both a full-size 4wd pickup
and an SUV.
Last time I looked this was still a free country , if somebody wants to
shovel money down a rat-hole by buying more car than they need, its
neither My business nor yours.

Mike
'96 Dodge BR2500,V-10, 13 mpg(18 thousand miles in eleven years, so who
cares)
'86 Dodge Ramcharger, 15 mpg on a really good day (basically zero trade
in value, why not keep it?)
'99 Kenworth T-800B/475hp Cat company car,6.5 mpg @ 80,000 lbs (the boss
gets to write this one off) 

At 09:21 AM 3/21/2007, Roger Schaaf wrote:
> On several new
> "cars" that I have purchased over the years, I was forced to
> pay a gas guzzler tax of a thousand dollars or more.  Who are the
> miscreants in our guberment that have given an exception to this tax to
> SUV's and pickup trucks.   This is beyond stupidity(but they
> are Politicos and know not what they do).  As a matter of fact the
> guberment would give you a tax credit and also allow you to write off in
> deductions the total amount of any vehicle of over 6000 pounds if used
> for "business purposes, yea right!".  This of course is
> why you see all these giant Hummers, Navigators, Excursions(used by
> soccer mom's and commuters) and other such riff raff vehicle on our
> highways spreading their death and destruction wherever they go. 
> Not to mention subsidizing those countries that support
> Islamic.terrorists in their attacks on our country and crazies such as
> Hugo Chavez.  
>  
> So the next time you are whining about the price of fuel,
> take a look at the SUV next to you who did not pay a dime in penalty to
> support their gas guzzling ways, which of course means more expensive
> fuel for your Ford car.  We have met the enemy and the enemy is us,
> said one wag(Pogo).
>  
> Roger Schaaf
> 300 B  17 MPG on a good day, but only less than 40 gallons per
> year.

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