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Originally Posted by classicman
You certainly didn't need to add another post to reiterate whatever you said in your other three overtly longwinded posts.
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Each of four posts provided completely new information. If you only see conclusions - ignore supporting facts - then all four posts are same. Repeatedly noted in so many posts. Grasp those supporting facts as if your life depended on it. Without supporting facts, a conclusion is just as good as a Rush Limbaugh lie or posts from people here who so foolishly support "Mission Accomplished". Four posts are same only if one sees conclusions - ignores what is more important.
345 Hp was the horsepower in another trucker's rig. 345 Hp was from a conversation only two days previously. 300 and 500 Hp to move more than 60,000 pounds? But others here foolishly think a car needs 200 Hp. Another example of those who know without first learning numbers. Same lesson were bluntly demonstrated in The Cellar in 2002/2003. Some were so easily manipulated into believing Saddam had WMDs because they ignored long posts with numerous supporting facts, details, and the numbers.
What good would a trucker's strike accomplish? Again, a first and standard question - what is the strategic objective? Long before a strike is considered, first, a solution (what defines a victory) must first be defined. That is the trucker's dilemma. Truckers did not create this problem. Truckers will be victims of others who so hate America as to even buy SUVs and monster pickups. But then we lived this same mistake throughout most of the 1970s.
A comment from Obama is a lesson from 1970s. When suggesting to Detroit executives that they must innovate; must increase gas mileage massively, Obama says the room got silent. Exact same response from 1970 MBAs when Carter asked for same solutions. They refused to innovate - a triumph of management school decisions. Detroit refused to use the 1960 stratified charge engine or the 1972 70 Hp/liter technology even after 1976 when Carter asked them to be patriots.
As a teenager, I built an electronic ignition for my 1960 technology Ford. Then asked why a kid could do what Detroit engineers could not. But then patriots repeatedly ask such questions. Nobody could answer then what everyone should know today. Engineers were quashed, stifled, prevented from innovating by business school graduates. Electronic ignitions did not appear until 1975 when EPA regulations forced (all but required) anti-innovation (MBA) management to innovate.
Want to see what contributes to high gasoline prices? American innovation must first appear ten plus years earlier in foreign products. Some Americans so hate America - so love obsolete technology - as to buy SUVs and pickups that weight too much for their little size, promote low performance engines, believe outright lies about 200 Hp engines, and ignore the trophy for obsolete American products - the V-8 engine.
Again, classicman, many new facts. For example, did you know why the only innovation in 1970s American cars always required EPA regulation? Literally every innovation that appeared in American 1970s cars was stifled until required by government regulation. Did you know that? Deja vue.
An old fact repeated. 1994 GM was given US government money to build a hybrid. Where is it? Deja vue 1970s GM. Demonstrated are examples - common to the many reasons for high oil prices. But again, how would a trucker's strike solve any of this? Another reason: American dollar is dropping like a rock due to corrupt American economic policies of six and more years. A trucker's strike cannot solve what extremist anti-Americans (ie people who voted for George Jr) have done to America. Time to pay for our sins (including "Mission Accomplished").
Will you remember these lessons 30 years from now when another generation promotes a political agenda rather than innovation? But more important, do you learn ten or thirty reasons that discuss why. Or do your eyes glaze over for all but sound byte posts?