--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > California Sues GM, Ford, Toyota Over Global Warming (Update1) > > I agree. These automakers lack of social responsibility is appalling- > where they must be sued or legislated into making any socially > responsible changes at all. Ever survived a car accident? If so, thank > your seat belts, airbags, etc. which were mandated by legislation.
If the consumer had demanded those things, they would have been on cars long before any government mandated it. Indeed, as I understand it, there are regulations soon coming out that people can dismantle airbags if they want? I wonder if they will choose to do so and in what numbers. > > One other point- I can choose to eat at McDees or not. Not so > regarding driving my car, as the automotive lobby was instrumental in > dimantling the public transportation (streetcar) networks at the turn > of the 19th-20th centuries. I wasn't aware that public transportation doesn't exist in L.A. or San Franscisco and other areas of California. That's terrible! Haven't the people there protested against this? > > Free market economics are pretty good and I support them. However the > role of the government is to control them due to their natural > evolution into monopolies. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
