Forum Post: NASCAR and the GOP; peas in a pod:
Posted 11 years ago on Oct. 9, 2012, 6:53 a.m. EST by factsrfun
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I just realized why the Republican Party is considered the NASCAR Party; Republicans can only cut taxes and NASCAR drivers can only turn left. I mean think about it if a NASCAR driver started to take a right, it would be a disaster just like if a Republican agreed to a tax increase, but a left turn or a cut they’re right there. In the limited constructed world of NASCAR it works, but in the real world a man needs to turn right now and again, same for their tax policy in some pretend world I’m sure the GOP would be just fine, but in the real world, it’s a trainwreck.
Surprising how few see this problem, i think it's because people think of tax policy as a journey, but it's not it's a system on a journey you can go in one direction, it's a good thing, in a system it's a disaster.
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When the going gets tough, the poor get screwed.
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It's always puzzled me how we are being encouraged to buy smaller cars, even electric cars, when every weekend, in every tinpot town and city in the western world, leadfoots are burning up gas, nitrous oxide, oils, tyres, lighting systems that could power a small town, just to drive round and round a track, hoping not to crash.
The crowds, on the other hand, are hoping for a crash. They race everything from lawn mowers, to hotted up prime movers, and there's not one word said about that.
Incredible.
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People need their excitement - even if it is vicarious - then their is also good things to be learned from any destructive testing for engineers.
I will be happy to see the day though when the racing - even of lawn mowers - will be done with clean fuel - like solar or hydrogen. {:-\
I'm all for formula 1, and the resulting engine performance and fuel injection technology improvements.
That said, if every little speedway track in the world (Australians are mad on speedway, BTW) had a performance electric category, just think how quickly that technology would move forward.
It's not like electric motors can't run very fast. And in a limited lap race, they are probably faster than formula 1.
We host the annual solar car race challenge from Darwin to Adelaide, and the entrants are becoming faster every year, but due to the limitations of having to generate their own power, the top speeds are still under the 100 mph mark.
With onboard battery banks, top speeds are only limited by aerodynamics, and the physics of road friction.
Brings up a funny coincidence - 4 electric racing - it seems that on an episode of American Chopper that they Built an electric drag bike and set a record with it. {:-])
Excellent. If you look at the court case between Tesla and the very popular Top Gear car show, you'll see how much resistance there is from the oil companies, and the moving forward into an electric future.
The internal combustion engine is such old technology, and wasteful, if it wasn't for the dollars involved in the massive support industry, it would be relegated to earthmoving machinery, for mine.
Oil companies are stuck in wrong thinking. There will always be markets for oil - synthetic or otherwise - it just does not have to be fuel related. Worse - with their money - they are in the best position to manage a profitable change-over.
Yes, there's this panic about running out of oil, but those in the power seats figure that there's enough for their lifetime, as long as they can get control over it, and make a lot of money from that control.
This has been the way of the world since the start of the industrial revolution.
The way of the world since the beginning - Greed is Blind.
Greed also affects decision-making.
Any new development that might diminish profit levels is soundly thrashed into non-being. Forget the environment, or the future of our children.
So greed is also damaging and restricting the future of everyone.
In a word - YES.
It is, it is sad that we don't trust our own government but we place so much trust in the unseen hand of the market that we end up "trusting" the CEO's that we have no control over, who don't consult us at all. I mean people who get pissed off because they don't get exactly what they want from government so they turn everything over to people that they don't even really know what those people are doing. Then these same people act to control the opinions through multiplication of the facts it seems they feel it would cost them too much to address climate change so they're going to sacrifice the planet.
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Nascar is definitely a racist rightie; what about horse racing? Racist righties, too, right? Are there any sports that these red devils don't own?
Lawn bowls, and errrm crocket.
Not sure you got my point but thank you for the feedback, but I'm going to say Basketball, Barkley for President!!
Granted, you can have B-Ball but we're keeping the beer, ok? If you're divvying things up, everything from Bud to Guinness belongs to us.
You don't get the Guinness or Bass. You don't get the rum, either.
What? No way... ok, ok, so what about the Pinot Noir? Or Riesling? We'll give you the Chardonnay.
Riesling is definitely rightie territory. Right?
But, I hate the Chardonnay You take the Chardonnay. Riesling is too sweet. You take the Riesling. You need it. We'll take the Pinot Grigio and vin de Bourgogne. I'm going to need the Metaxa and Grappa to cook with. We will have to share.
Share? Yearight. Picture that. What if we split the Pinot Grigio?
Ok, but then we are going to need the Corona.
Nice. So what are you cooking?
Moussaka.
Are we gonna share that, too?
You like moussaka?
That's a possibility. I could file it under "Corona adventures."
Hmmm. Ok.
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one of your dumber posts.
What''s dumb is voting for a party that can only turn left.
the democrats?
I've seen the Ds drive they turn left and right, (they raise and lower taxes) it's the Rs that are heading us toward a cleft and won't turn or slow down.