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Couric HATES SUV's?

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Couric HATES SUV's?

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Is this woman stupid or what? Reposted from media research center. Like the AG has nothing better to do than address her stupidity.


Anti-SUV efforts not anti-SUV enough for NBC's Katie Couric. In a Tuesday Today segment about an SUV safety advertising campaign, Couric, who admitted that SUVs "scare me a little bit because I feel like they could squash me like a bug," demanded of Connecticut's liberal crusading Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal: "What about the environmental impact of these cars? They're huge gas guzzlers, they're not particularly good for the environment. How come you're not emphasizing that as well?" Couric interviewed Blumenthal outside as the two stood in a front of the huge mascot for the campaign, ESUVEE, which the AP described as "a monster...that resembles a woolly mammoth with headlights."


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Reply #51 from JoeUser Forums Top
And thank God that we also have the right not to make stupid idiotic laws that do more harm than good. Those precoius Hydrogen cars that are so dear to the left? They cause more polution than they eliminate in the making of the gas. AN SUV is more evironmentally friendly than those POS.


I don't recall ever trying to make a case for Hydrogen cars. And I still don't think our forefathers founded the Land of the Free with the intentions of letting environmentally irresponsible citizens do whatever they please regardless of how it may harm the rest of us. I can even appreciate those who want to drive SUVs because they feel safer or need to tow the boat to the lake every now and then, but there's no need to bring the "Land of the Free" into this. You come across like a 1st grader saying "I don't have to do what you say, it's a free country." Cause let's face it, no rational person really wants that kind of unrestricted freedom.

Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them).


Oh, I totally forgot about all those majestic oil drilling fields, the beauty of which brings tears to my eyes...God...*sniffle*...bless....*sniffle*...America!

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Reply #52 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them).


Actually, I was just reading on that. A single wind turbine nets $3,000 a year for the property holder who allows it on his property. The statistics that held true for even as recent as ten years ago don't hold true now, due to advances over the last ten years in turbine technology (There's a piece on it in this month's Mother Earth News).


As for being an eyesore, while folks out in La-La land wouldn't like it, there are plenty of areas in the top o' Texas that are viable and won't be an eyesore for anyone but a few cattle...There's actually a wind farm about 30 miles from us...this is where I'm going for research.

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Reply #53 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gideon, what's the status of wind turbines in relation to bird migration that has been an issue for a long time?
Reply #54 from JoeUser Forums Top

Oh, I totally forgot about all those majestic oil drilling fields, the beauty of which brings tears to my eyes...God...*sniffle*...bless....*sniffle*...America!


Guess you do not live on Nantucket where they think the windmill farms are an eyesore as well!


and one grasshopper is worth a thousand fans.  Think about that.

Reply #55 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dr. Guy... do you know how to read? This time, I'll assume you forgot to put on the self perscribed reading glasses.

the "Oh, I totally forgot about all those majestic oil drilling fields, the beauty of which brings tears to my eyes...God...*sniffle*...bless....*sniffle*...America! " remark was made in response to the

"Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them). " remark.
Reply #56 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #55 By: sandy2 - 2/6/2005 4:53:10 PM
Dr. Guy... do you know how to read? This time, I'll assume you forgot to put on the self perscribed reading glasses.

the "Oh, I totally forgot about all those majestic oil drilling fields, the beauty of which brings tears to my eyes...God...*sniffle*...bless....*sniffle*...America! " remark was made in response to the

"Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them). " remark.


You know something....Your just like all the rest. Make fun of the statement and in doing so overlook the obvious point.


"Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them). " remark
Reply #57 from JoeUser Forums Top

Dr. Guy... do you know how to read? This time, I'll assume you forgot to put on the self perscribed reading glasses.

the "Oh, I totally forgot about all those majestic oil drilling fields, the beauty of which brings tears to my eyes...God...*sniffle*...bless....*sniffle*...America! " remark was made in response to the

"Actually, I have seen windmill farms east of LA. Thousands of them! But they dont generate that much energy. And are ugly (in a weird kind of way, I am fascinated by them). " remark.


And your 'sniveling' little point is? Or should I say the lack there of?

Reply #58 from JoeUser Forums Top

Gideon, what's the status of wind turbines in relation to bird migration that has been an issue for a long time?


I am not actually sure on that one. I haven't seen migratory birds near the turbines, so I'd guess they probably design them to make noise at proper frequencies to frighten the birds. But it IS viable (the Mother Earth News article mentioned that wind turbines produce electricity at 4 cents per kilowatt hour, and some long term contracts have been signed at three cents per kilowatt hour), and, in our case, at least, there is a wind farm near enough to make reasonable projections if we were to have one sited near us.

Reply #59 from JoeUser Forums Top

But it IS viable (the Mother Earth News article mentioned that wind turbines produce electricity at 4 cents per kilowatt hour, and some long term contracts have been signed at three cents per kilowatt hour),

Where there is sufficient and regular winds.  The Place in California that I saw them is in the pass connecting LA to the interior valley, and yes it is very windy.  I did not see any birds getting chopped up, but then I just drive (and sometimes stop for lunch or diner) through that area.  I dont live there.

Reply #60 from JoeUser Forums Top

dr guy,


You are correct. I live in the Texas panhandle, which is identified as one of the best areas for wind farming.