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June 12, 2008
Why Moonbats Hate Cars
Now I get why liberals hate cars so much that their prophet Al Gore denounced the internal combustion engine as the greatest threat in the history of mankind. The obsession with extravagantly expensive light rail boondoggles is starting to make sense too. Terence Jeffrey explains:
No device is more in keeping with the American spirit than the automobile. Privately owned cars and trucks allow us to go where we want, when want. They are freedom machines.
Still, some liberals would like to use government to force Americans out of their cars. They believe in socialized transportation, not free-market transportation.
In a free-market transportation system, a person purchases his own vehicle with his own money, buys his own gas with his own money and can drive his vehicle anywhere there is a road — and, if he has the right kind of vehicle, some places where there are no roads.
In contrast,
In a socialist transportation system, the government takes the taxpayers' money and purchases vehicles — often buses or trains — for itself or a government-funded agency. Where and when these vehicles go is determined by the government.
This helps explain why bureaucrats have been pushing gas prices through the ceiling with their excessive taxes and restrictions on drilling and building refineries.
Artificially suppressing the oil supply is the most significant method government is using today to move people from a free market transportation system into a socialized transportation system.
In May, the Department of Interior estimated that U.S. territory contains about 139 billion barrels of undiscovered oil resources, much of it (85.9 billion barrels) off our coasts on the Outer Continental Shelf. Development of most of this oil is either forbidden or effectively prevented by federal laws and regulations.
Also in May, when the Federal Highway Administration released its monthly report on "Traffic Volume Trends," it revealed that Americans had driven 4.3 percent fewer miles in March 2008 than they had in March 2007. This was the fifth month in a row that Americans had driven fewer miles than they had in the same month the previous year.
In light of all this, Obama's recent admission that he approves of gas prices going up, but only wishes they wouldn't shoot up so fast that voters get mad, almost makes sense. Our self-induced problems aren't quite incomprehensible, once you become sufficiently cynical.
Update:
Compliments of Justin S, here's a sample of the charming free entertainment offered aboard the government transportation onto which we're being forced:
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 12, 2008 7:58 AM
Comments
It's hard to believe, but there has been a tourism industry throughout history. However, it was only since the early twentieth century that working-class people could afford to visit the sights further than the next town, this is because of the Ford Model T which was designed and priced for the "common man". The lasting effect of this increese in tourism has been more (and better) public roads, creation of more public parks and nature preserves, preservation and restoration of historical lands, buildings, ships and other points of interest.
What will become of these precious resources without the "trailor trash redneck" supporting his fellow Americans' businesses and paying into local and state coffers by taking an easy 1-2 hour drive to Gettysburg Battlefield, or Chimney Rock, or the Will Rogers museum? I suppose we can convert these places to CORNFIELDS and make ethanol.
Posted by: KHarn at June 12, 2008 2:33 PM
We better get mad and FAST. Eleven dollars a gallon is the current bar the government would like to set for gasoline. That would "encourage conservation" and "help break our addiction to oil" as well as "promote alternative energy".
What it would really do is sink the U.S. economy faster than the Titanic...and they WANT this. Once the economy is broken, we'll (a) stop being such horrible consumers of (that magic) TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE WORLDS RESOURCES and (b) be ripe for a socialist take-over.
Posted by: matt at June 12, 2008 3:57 PM
Have long suspected this to be the case. The automobile is an even more important symol of individuality and freedom of choice than guns, and is more vital to everyday life. It's harder to demonize it but with global warming (oops I mean climate change) the case is being built against it..
Posted by: mandible claw at June 12, 2008 9:52 PM
Stock up on food now, before the trucking industry dies a horrible death and the shelves are bare.
Posted by: PabloD at June 12, 2008 10:05 PM
Oh, and as for the video... where's a Taser-happy transit cop when you need one?
Posted by: PabloD at June 12, 2008 10:06 PM
As for the video - What the Fudge!
Is that a young BOO (Bride of Obama) or is that just a typical ObamaManiac?
Yeah, if she is 'sober' enough on election day, she will be voting for Obama. That is if she is capable of reading.
She is an example of your Nanny Liberal Nation Policies in Action!
Posted by: Oiao at June 12, 2008 10:16 PM
Try this experiment sometime: I was coming out of a market and (in my example) a "Greenpeace" activist was stumping for signatures on some petition to "Save Homeless Transgender Whales" or something.
I didn't even bat an eye when he asked for my support. I said "do YOU support private property rights?" Blank stare. "Do you feel that it's the right of an individual to own private property?"
Well...um....uh...sputter...
After quite some time, he admitted that it "isn't fair" that so few have "so much", and we could make "better use of our land" and...blah blah blah. I said "then basically you want to limit everything man can do and own until you break civilization apart."
He took his petition and left, since I was busting his chops in front of potential dupes. Make no mistake, this is an all-out push from the socialist left to take our society down.
Posted by: matt at June 12, 2008 11:45 PM
Nicely- handled, matt.
Posted by: Adam at June 13, 2008 5:40 AM
Bravo, Matt.
Posted by: KHarn at June 13, 2008 4:16 PM
Interesting that she went on and on, as all bullies do, until someone bigger and stronger than she FINALLY stood up and stopped her - whereupon, she folded like a deck of cards.
Posted by: avalon at June 13, 2008 5:19 PM
Oiao wrote: "Yeah, if she is 'sober' enough on election day, she will be voting for Obama. That is if she is capable of reading."
Sadly, neither sobriety nor literacy is a prerequisite for exercising the right to vote. If 50% +1 of the population is a slobbering, drunken harlot, then the harlot gets what it wants. And deserves, probably...
Posted by: Anonymous at June 13, 2008 8:25 PM
Oops, the "Anonymous at June 13, 2008 8:25 PM" is mine... wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone who posts without ID, especially around here.
Posted by: PabloD at June 13, 2008 8:33 PM
Someone needs to send that monkey back to her cage.
Posted by: Gross at June 14, 2008 10:05 AM
That girl on the transit car harrassing an old woman...is it just me, or does it seem like it took an unbelievably LOOOOONG time for anyone to do/say anything? Did the other passengers think it was, by and large, pretty "cool", or what...???
Like Oiao pointed out, this is but one example of the end product of "Liberal" social reconstruction, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted by: Toa at June 14, 2008 2:52 PM
Your comments are interesting, but I don't know what me and my fellow travelers (sic) where we'll put all those automobiles and SUVs in the gummit impound yards.
Posted by: Michael D. Setty at June 16, 2008 7:07 PM
I noticed that 'Souljah girl's' parting shots seemed to be, "I'm pressing charges". Fear of legal action could account for the reluctance of the other passengers to speak out.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at June 17, 2008 8:19 PM
