Pirate's Cove

Hey, y’all, Jeb here. Teach told me to stay away from the Huffington Post, but I get a hoot out of watching moonbats pretend they think normally. Now, there must be some sort of alien control of the moonbats, due to irrational inability to mention Bill Clinton in a negative light. Case in point: Laurie David goes on a rant about, who else?, George Bush, saying that he missed a chance to change the regulations on fuel economy for the SUV’s and heavy trucks. On that, I will agree with her, furthermore, I believe, and have believed for a long time (like back into the 90’s), that SUV’s and trucks (pickups, that is) should not be excempt from fuel regulations. The proliferation of them and their crappy fuel milage is a travesty.

Problem with Laurie is her poor reading comprehension and her total avoidance of Slick.

When Congress originally exempted large SUVs in the 1980s, seeking to keep costs down for construction and agricultural businesses, no one foresaw that these gas guzzlers would be embraced by American families for non commercial uses. But billions spent on advertising by Detroit convinced the public that these cars-on-steroids were hip, and necessary for trips to soccer games, weekend picnics, school and church. The resulting petroleum addiction has driven us all the way to Iraq.

Gee, Laurie, I guess you missed something in the New York Times article you quoted:

When the current two-category system was created in the 1970’s, cars ruled the American road. Since then, automakers have developed new classes of vehicles that qualify as trucks, including S.U.V.’s, minivans and family-oriented pickup trucks with two rows of seats. As a result, not only is the number of vehicles on the road increasing, but the average new vehicle is getting lower mileage than it did two decades ago because so many more new vehicles are trucks. An increasing emphasis on horsepower is also a major factor.

Oops. Not 1980’s, honey. And, pray tell, when did the true explosion of SUV’s and pickups for personal use really explode? Yup, the 1990’s, while Clinton was President. Sure looks to me like Bill ignored the growing (sic) problem with these fuel hogs. I’m still surprised that Al Gore didn’t have a stroke. Maybe he has no blood pressure to start with. Who knows? But Laurie writes:

The administration’s renewal of this reckless exemption is a boon to big oil, Detroit, Iran, the Saudi sheiks, and Hezbollah — and America be damned.

But no condemnation for Clinton, huh, Laurie? Was he like a stealth President? He could have nipped this problem in the butt, but he chose not to. In essence, GWB is just continuing a policy that Bill presided over. Though, in the sense of fairness and reality, Bush 41 has a hand in this, too. Maybe Laurie should try the same thing. According to the Times article, there is no "renewal" of the exemption. It has been ongoing. First paragraph, Laurie

The Bush administration is expected to abandon a proposal to extend fuel economy regulations to include Hummer H2’s and other huge sport utility vehicles, auto industry and other officials say.

Now, that wasn’t so hard to understand, eh? Lower your Clinton block, Laurie.

Evening Update: apparently, Laurie is too chickenshit (hey, it is Teach that refrains from most profanity) to post my comments, calling her out, that I left at the Huff Post. Figures. Left 3 comments, none even that inflammatory. CHICKENSHIT! Taking my link back, and using basil’s superduper kickass link redirect.