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You get two posts tonight ’cause I just ran across this article.  I just…I mean…I can’t…can you believe…do you follow…Gah!  I’m not going to make any commentary on this article because anyone that has a lick of sense or knows me at all can write the rest of the post yourself. 

You know what?  I got my second wind.  I’m going to comment.  Everyone….EVERYONE has stated that we need an energy policy that reduces our dependency on oil.  We also prefer to have cars that don’t sound like MAC trucks; we’ve wanted fuel-efficient, quiet cars.  The car industries have finally decided that we should get what we ask for at least once in a while and came out with cars that actually do both!  Great, right?!  Well, apparently, not everyone.

We are now going to pay the Transportation Department probably around $100 million so that, according to the most recent GAO report, we can get all the DoT employees Priuses for free and generate a report that says that unless you live on a cul-de-sac in Missoula, Montana it’s not a big friggin deal.  In spite of the fact it’s a stupid idea, they’ll still do it, force recommendations on the auto companies, and these two congressmen can slap each other on the back for solving this critical problem and can go back to the frivolous problems such as terrorism, the collapsing housing market, ballooning debt, how to properly end the two wars we’re in the middle of in Iraq and Afghanistan (thought we forgot about that one, didn’t you, congressmen?), a resurgent Russia, our collapsing education system, ……