Do They Hate Horses Too?

In the late 1960's early 70's when many Americans discovered Sex Drugs and RockNroll others were "Seeing the USA in their Chevrolet" and falling in love with the musclecar.




Manufacturers were scrambling to make the next, fastest, baddest hotrod with the biggest engine in the smallest chassis.


But what was to become the current "liberal left" in America decided that cars were bad. California started the movement (shocking) with strict emission standards causing Mfr's to make special "CA" modifications for sales of cars in California. A shortage on supplies of gasoline (and issues in the middle east) caused gas prices to shoot up temporarily and panic set in. The left used this as a scare tactic to make Americans drive smaller, lower hp, less efficient but "cleaner" cars that would save us all tons of money on gas.

Their answer was the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega and of course for all of us to drive foreign cars.

Their strategy worked.... for a while that is.

But Pinto's caught on fire in most accidents, Vega's rattled themselves to pieces, gas prices didn't continue to climb as some had claimed and Americans came back to bigger engines in bigger vehicles and the SUV was born.
Even sexy new retro musclecars were rolling off the assembly lines!

Almost immediately the left went on the attack. Across the land the cry went out that SUV's have gotta' go because they're causing global warming and destroying the planet.

I'll bet you a large Dr. Pepper that even if we were experiencing "global cooling" it would still be the automobile's fault... and even if suddenly the temp never changed again.... guess what, it would be the result of driving cars too much and destroying the natural ebb and flow of climate change!

So I'm wondering why the Left hates cars so much.
Is it simply gasoline (oil)?
That's the easy answer, until you ask why do they hate oil?
Is it the environment?
Again, that's the easy answer... if you don't ask any more questions, (like the left)
But, they also hate nuclear power (not in my backyard), Electricity (hydroelectric dams/lakes cause environmental damage) and even wind power (not if it obstructs MY view).

Okay, so what's left to use to heat our homes and power transportation, industry with?

Can you imagine for a second... if all the homes and businesses in America were heated with wood? (It's organic and replenishable folks) The smog would be so thick you could cut it with a knife. So that's out. No heat or A/C.
BTW- Since one single cord of wood produces as much emissions as 10 SUV's, how much does a thousand acres of burning wood in a forest fire started by lightning contribute to global warming?

Anyway, besides sitting in a cold dark (or hot) house, we could get to our cold dark jobs riding a horse I suppose...

But no, the methane gas alone would destroy the planet. Horses are bad.
We could all go to work riding our shiny new bicycles with a little bell on it. Except rubber mfg. is bad and there might be lead in the paint and there would be no iron or steel manufacturing (no oil, coal or hot enough fire), or plastic, so bikes are out.

Okay I've got it... we could all go to our cold- dark- jobs on roller skates.

(Or inline skates if you prefer) except that there wouldn't be any paved roads (no asphalt) .
Concrete can't be good for the environment either, so sidewalks are out. Forget skating.


Exercise is good, so we could all just walk to our cold (hot) dark jobs, ...except there probably wouldn't be any jobs to walk to either.

Sound's lovely doesn't it?

I'm going for a drive, ...catch ya' later.

-red
UPDATE: Thanks to an anonymous commenter, (who happens to have gotten it) it's us, people, humans, me and you that they hate and everything to do with us. Perhaps this is the answer...