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   akibono said, 6 months ago

   Future cars from Government Motors will come with a government issued can opener so the victims can be extracted.

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   Dale Hopson said, 6 months ago

   Just glad we have a president who realizes how important mass transit is!

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   Kylop said, 6 months ago

   Is it just me or does the car from the “good ‘ol days” seem to be about the same size as the “small” car?

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   akibono said, 6 months ago

   No mass transit in my area. Infernal combustion rules, no matter what the thin man with purple lips thinks.

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   michael said, 6 months ago

   Maybe someone can explain this cartoon? The News in the second panel says “Big tobacco intentionally deceived americans”, but what does that have to do with emissions standards?

   As far as the relationship between vehicle weight to its safety, weight matters mostly when running into a brick wall, and if that was the only safety concern we’d all be driving tanks. The flip side is that heavy vehicles are more likely to roll, especially in an emergency situation where you have to steer, and take a lot longer to stop, meaning they’re more likely to get into an accident if they’re traveling the same speed as a lighter vehicle.

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   tsuga said, 6 months ago

   Michael - If I’m not mistaken, Asay may have - for the first time in my memory - come close to making an interesting point. Because the federal government now owns a majority stake in GM, it has an interest in profit, and therefore government safety standards can become a conflict of interest if they limit profit. Or more in line with Asay’s thinking, the government will push the agenda of more fuel efficient cars to the detriment of safety because they control both things, much like tobacco companies did despite knowing the impacts of smoking…did I really just use Asay and thinking in the same sentence? Wow.

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   NoFearPup said, 6 months ago

   Ahh, I have too interpret the wise and subtle Asay to you Libs ( It feels grea)t: You couldn’t trust the powers-that-be then and you still can’t now… we still have somebody else’s agenda running our lives. The best anti-dote is informed consent. (You sharp Liberals may have noticed I took a middle-of-the-road position).

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   linusbern said, 5 months ago

   DamelcyStare
   I must be a thickwitted lib. What’s with the newspaper blowing past? Is he saying the whole “pollution/global warming issue” is something car companies cooked up so they could sell hybrids?

   Since the headline likely refers to Tobacco Co.s historically denying health hazards linked to smoking, the most obvious correlation seems to be the way auto and oil companies denied global warming and health hazards related to pollution. That seems to be in direct contradiction to the message Asay is trying to get across in the illustration and dialogue.

   DamelcyStare, I am forced to conclude that this cartoon is a hodgepodge of confused contradictions. You may have thought you could interpret it because you are wise and Asay is wise, but it is probably more the case that gibberish can be only understood by the insane. I will agree with your, “don’t trust the powers that be no matter who they are”, attitude, but there is nothing in the cartoon to suggest that is his point.