Tuesday, September 27, 2005
No blood for oil, but who cares if we kill more in smaller cars?
Not the left wingers, that’s for sure.
From Jay Nordlinger in National Review Online:
"In the ongoing category of Only Thomas Sowell Could Have Written That: “Many of the same people who cry ‘No blood for oil!’ also want higher gas-mileage standards for cars. But higher mileage standards have meant lighter and flimsier cars, leading to more injuries and deaths in accidents — in other words, trading blood for oil.”"
"Brutal."
For the record, Favorite Wife and I do not own an SUV. We do own two foreign cars that go REALLY fast (Actually, three, but Favorite Daughter does not go fast in hers/mine). Some of my friends and relatives, however, do own SUVs. I still love them and do not consider them unpatriotic for using gas at prodigious rates or for endangering me in a side crash as their bumper plows through my side window, side air bag, and side of my head.
From Jay Nordlinger in National Review Online:
"In the ongoing category of Only Thomas Sowell Could Have Written That: “Many of the same people who cry ‘No blood for oil!’ also want higher gas-mileage standards for cars. But higher mileage standards have meant lighter and flimsier cars, leading to more injuries and deaths in accidents — in other words, trading blood for oil.”"
"Brutal."
For the record, Favorite Wife and I do not own an SUV. We do own two foreign cars that go REALLY fast (Actually, three, but Favorite Daughter does not go fast in hers/mine). Some of my friends and relatives, however, do own SUVs. I still love them and do not consider them unpatriotic for using gas at prodigious rates or for endangering me in a side crash as their bumper plows through my side window, side air bag, and side of my head.
