XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: crwlrjeff@yahoo.com   
      
   "necromancer - ECHM"  wrote in message   
   news:n2fo76dqnvb9400u97lfu8hq54ru7ep9ri@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:20:15 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   > TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock & the   
   > Stationary Bicycle to burn the calories"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>The story goes that in the old times cars were regulated by CAFE   
   >>standards, and Congress somehow got around those regulations by   
   >>labeling the SUV a "truck"... Yes, they can be very clever when they   
   >>want.   
   >   
   > COngress didn't label them trucks. The automakers did by building   
   > SUV's on the same frame that they build their trucks on.   
   >   
      
   You should plonk tibetian monkey dung because he's an idiot. He comes up   
   with this crap all of the time, he's pretty much a one-issue pile of monkey   
   dung. He has a serious misunderstanding of english, and an even greater   
   misunderstanding of how things work.   
      
   Sadly, I happen to agree that things don't work very well, particularly in   
   the realm of auto regulations, but dispite the seemingly broken system of   
   regulating cars, monkey dung doesn't know how the system should work if it   
   was working right, and he's even more confounded when he stumbles on the   
   few-and-far-between instances of when the system breaks down. For example,   
   he thinks that the SUV designation was awarded by the government to   
   circumvent auto regulations when you rightly point out that an SUV is built   
   on a truck chassis, and that trucks are regulated differently than   
   automobiles.   
      
   What he fails to recognize is that stationwagons, built on a car chassis,   
   were all but regulated out of the industry through congressional   
   legislation, but while that was going on, the automakers campaigned   
   (successfully) that regulating trucks would hurt working men andn women that   
   use them to haul tools and equipment to the job site. Congress agreed -- to   
   the extent that Congress can agree on anything -- and allowed trucks to not   
   be regulated the same as cars. The automakers simply up-scaled the trucks by   
   making them nore luxurious, and putting a cover over the cargo bed so that   
   the cargo bed was now inside the passenger compartment. Viola, the SUV is   
   born.   
      
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