Recent Comments:
Did the Sultan of Brunei Buy 10 Aston Martin One-77s for His Billion-Dollar Car Collection? {Luxist}
Jul 30th 2010 12:14AM Excuse me for flinching at this. A few fewer cars and a bit more given the health and human services needed by some of the less fortunate of his people hanging around the Middle East blaming Israel for their condition at every turn, that's what he can do with his cars. Blame him for the Palestinian situation, not Israel. It's stuffed sheets like this that should be drawing our attention. And I can guarantee you he didn't earn his wealth the hard way, working his way up from oil well driller to sultan through a hierarchical promotion. A higher up sultan should take his cars away, sell them, and donate the money to the poor. How about a health plan or educational benefits instead of cars? No where on earth is there so much accumulated wealth controlled by so few in the midst of so much abject poverty.
Shame on this man. I suppose we should be thankful his hobby isn't castles, or he'd have a few hundred of those.
To Boycott BP: Yes Or No? {Translogic}
Jul 21st 2010 9:51PM History reminds us IBM supplied the Nazis with calculators for use in concentration camps tracking prisoners. History reminds us Mercedes company built gas chambers for the concentration camps, as well. Hitler, himself, drove cars made by companies doing well in America today. Then there was that industrial disaster in the factory in India that killed thousands. And lest we forget, the eighteen Trade Center terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, not Iraq. Their oil is fine with us. And Exxon is still banking billions and Alaska is long-since forgiven if not forgotten. But BP, the evil industry du jour, apparently has raised the bar on industrial misery to a new level. Now news is released that potential leak warnings preceeded the disaster and were ignored. But the question remains: should we boycott BP service stations? Of course dealers are not responsible. They only sell the product. But ask yourselves: How many dealers have spoken out against their company? When you continue to sell a product while knowing your company has done something terribly wrong, are you part of the wrong doing? There is either a connection or there isn't a connection between the company and its stations. Oh, here's a sidebar that remains the sole reason I won't buy a Ford product no matter how much better their cars are. And it isn't because Henry Ford was a Hitler fan and an avowed anti-Semite. It's because some years back, when we owned a Mercury-and the dealer was as dishonest as it's possible to be-and I called and wrote Ford of North America in Dearborn, I was told by their head office: "We have nothing to do with how our dealers conduct their business. " It's no wonder when the auto industry was failing and Detroit closed thousands of dealerships, few if any customers came forward to shout out, "Don't close Billy Bob's Chevrolet in Hollow Grove, Texas." And finally, I'm reminded of the consumer survey of 100 dealership and service station repair departments. The survey people took in a car with a $5.00-$25.00 repair at most. Ninety-five of the service station/dealerships charged $50.00-$500.00 to make the repair. Five stations charged in $ 5.00-$25.00 range. Service stations are notorious for over-charging, BP, I'm sure, included. Gas price hikes aside, maybe people are tired of being robbed on car reparis, too.
