Comments on: Buy One Albatross, Get One Free!

By: mcas

mcas — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:03 +0000

I am currently visiting the family in Pembroke Pines, FL-- and my dad was just at the Toyota dealership trying to trade in his 1992 Toyota for a Prius... and was refused getting his keys back for over 20 minutes until he pretended he was feeling woozy from diabetes... Desperation is a bitch.

By: MisterBadExample

MisterBadExample — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:56:29 +0000

Actually, this is the perfect rescue plan for all the ARM victims. Buy two RAM trucks--drive to work in one, put the other one up on blocks and live in it.

By: Gil Avineri

Gil Avineri — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:56:38 +0000

A lot of bicycle haters out here. I drive a yellow cab, but I've got a whole lot of respect for 2 wheelers. Some day we will be forced to say goodbye to the petroleum vehicle. Won't last forever. Industry reps got the balls to fly into DC on private jets but they ain't got the guts to transform production from gas tank to renewable or recycled (bio-diesel).

By: MrManhattan

MrManhattan — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:24:02 +0000

"Oh God I can't wait until one of you bicycle riders have to make a long distance trip and there are no cars."

This doesn't make any sense. If there were no cars, I would suspect that bicycle riders would be far less inconvenienced than car drivers, since presumably, bicycle riders would still have their bicycles.

By: poncho

poncho — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:10:34 +0000

i'm assuming the next step is taking brand new cars straight to the scrapper?

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:28:10 +0000

Oh God I can't wait until one of you bicycle riders have to make a long distance trip and there are no cars.

You know, lots of us have no cars now and we make long distance trips just fine. Assuming that bus and train service will continue to be shitty if nobody has cars is just plain dumb, immature and irrational.

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:40:45 +0000

Oh God I can't wait until one of you bicycle riders have to make a long distance trip and there are no cars. Oh so you'll take a train or a plane. Good luck if the trip is under a hundred miles and there's no rail service and certainly no plane service... Oh there's the bus. Actually it's your smugness that really irritates me. Schadenfreude I understand. Cutting off your nose to spite your face as the economy plunges is just plain dumb, immature and irrational.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:02:43 +0000

is this another interpretation of "Mass Transit"?

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:17:53 +0000

"...if NYC imposes odd-even license plate days in the CBD."

Great idea!

By: Eric McClure

Eric McClure — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:24:51 +0000

Toss in three years' worth of free gas and I'm all over it. Perfect solution if NYC imposes odd-even license plate days in the CBD.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:41:25 +0000

Is that second one mandatory?

By: Liam Patrick

Liam Patrick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:56:27 +0000

Ow, my eyes. Make this a thumbnail or something!

By: Streetsman

Streetsman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:56:06 +0000

Pretty sad, but eventually you have to pay the piper. The auto industry has no one to blame but themselves.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:39:42 +0000

They're competing with the liquidation sale of everything owned by everyone who works in construction in Florida.