Ridiculous stuff you hear!

[Sal-XK]

I've been hearing or reading about so much stupid stuff lately. I figured start a thread on it. Discuss stupid stuff thats posted or post stupid stuff you have heard or read about. This is stuff that someone is serious about but is just ridiculous.

The government is talking about getting rid of the gas tax!! Don't get to excited the plan is to install a device in every vehicle and charge you tax by the miles you drive. LOL I know its stupid whats the difference charge me by the gallon or charge me by the mile. Will they use said technology to track you? probably. They didn't say if the tax rate would be based on the type of vehicle you own but wouldn't put it pass them. I can see the ecco jerks getting there taxed removed for any vehicle getting 40+MPG. Will this ever happen probably not but someone still put it on paper. So if you drive on a county owned and maintained road that your property tax paid for Uncle Sam will tax you to drive on it. Take a state funded toll road you already paid for and pay to maintain and the feds will add there tax to that to. Depending on where you drive you could be getting triple taxed.

[Sal-XK]

The new app broadcaster. You walk around with your smartphone listening to peoples stories. Pretty much you record what ever you want and pin it to the map. Then someone walks buy with there smartphone at that spot on the map and plays back the recording as you walk by on your phone. So now on top of all the other stuff going on you can have some wackos voice playing on your smartphone.

[Adondo]

How about the panicked state of Washington with their new electric car tax. Since full electrics (such as the Leaf) don't use gasoline, there's no gas tax taken in. And because electric cars ''cause just as much wear and tear'' on the roads as everything else, they now added a $100 tax onto the license tab fees.

Gee whiz, I know there's at least one Leaf for every 5 cars here, after all, we're completely overrun with electrics. (Give me a break :rolleyes:)

As for their weak 'wear and tear' argument, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's 80,000 lb. trucks that do most of the wear and tear on the roads rather than little 2,700 lb. electric cars?!?

[Sal-XK]

ya that is pretty gay LOL

[WanderingTs]

They will say anything to try to convince you to "pay your fair share" ... which really means give us more $$$. Bad part is people buy into the stupid arguements.

[Sal-XK]

Oil prices have been falling and yet gas prices remain high. The latest thing I heard was the rack prices paid by independent to purchase gas was way down but there not buying so there selling off there more expensive purchased gas. What a crock of bull ****, I watched one gas station change there prices twice in one day of course raising. Your telling me they got two deliveries of fuel that day one more expensive then the other I don't think so. They had there cheaper gas in the tanks and charges us the current rate before they even purchased that more expensive fuel. Now on the way down all of a sudden there charging us for the actual price they paid for the fuel in the tanks. The United States Attorney General is launching an investigation to see if fraud is being committed. Memos went out to dozens of federal agency which included the FBI and the FCC to look into futures traders and speculators in oil. I hope someone goes to jail. Also found out that even though oil companies are reporting record profits in the 30 billion dollar a year range and get this there still receiving big tax breaks. What a joke.

[cico7]

I think they did this a couple years ago, investigating the futures market traders. The price came down, for a little while.

Best news yet, you people that buy electric cars and more fuel vehicles, there is hope. While you are saving the environment,
you are costing the government tax dollars. So, now you we be charged per mile as opposed to gallons. We have to make this
fair and balanced. Ooops, wrong program.

I know the mileage tax has been stated here before, but for all those who got tax credits for being fuel effecient, shame on you.

there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ... —Aristotle

[Sal-XK]

The current opinion on the "investigation" is that they know the prices are falling so they announce a investigation the prices fall and they get the credit for it. I don't know what going on. I do know one thing though stop comparing our gas market with everyone else like Europe. We are not set up like them at all, over there a car is mostly a luxury now I say mostly. There public transportation system is well established and they don't have to drive as far as we do. We are spread out way to far a car is the only way to get around. I don't have any public transportation to choose from where I live I have to drive. So I'm tired of hearing all these people saying well in Europe they pay this. Yes but 80% of there fuel cost is taxes for one thing. The two markets are not comparable its diffidently apples and oranges here.

[Chapman89]

Obama's speech from today. nuff' said.

[Sal-XK]

Obama's speech from today. nuff' said.

I missed it but I missed it on purpose.

[cico7]

How about read?

I am wondering,

https://theultimatejeep.com/images/imported/2011/05/speaka27english-1.jpg

if you can't speak english, can you read it?

And if you read english but still need assistance, who do you notify then?

[strokeZ]

Reminds me of the sign when you walk into the Big Boy where I grew up. It said "Braile Menu Available". Wonder who that was for?

[CmmdrDan]

I saw a commerical for the chevy Volt. They said it "goes" (for the lack of a better word, its late give me a break) for around 12 dollars a day...that isn't cheaper than my heavy ass brick driving down the road. If I put 50 bucks in my tank a week that is like what 8 bucks a day...4 bucks less than a fuel free car..thats stupid...

[superacerc]

Maybe it gets great milage but that's it's depreciation value per day -$12. lol. Doing that math it's very plausible. 4k a year depreciation.
Except i know that's not the case.

[CmmdrDan]

Id still rather spend the 8 dollars a day over the 12..

[cico7]

Id still rather spend the 8 dollars a day over the 12..
8 is for fuel. I am thinking the commercial is suggesting the 12 includes cost of the vehicle.

I could be wrong.

[CmmdrDan]

8 is for fuel. I am thinking the commercial is suggesting the 12 includes cost of the vehicle.

I could be wrong.
You could be or I could be. But they should clairfy that in the commerical.

[cico7]

If we ran everything with solar power, someone would complain we are using too much of it.

[Adondo]

Reminds me of the sign when you walk into the Big Boy where I grew up. It said "Braile Menu Available". Wonder who that was for?

You'll notice that on most (if not all) drive-thru ATM's there's Braille labeling. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but if you're DRIVING to use a DRIVE-THRU ATM, and you need to read the button labeling with Braille... ??? :p

And the Volt. So, they are ''green'' huh? Where do people think the power comes from to charge the battery pack? The more of these things hit the roads, the more the smoke stacks on coal fired power plants will belch out CO2 and the like. Green my a$$.

Read this article from Car Talk: http://www.cartalk.com/content/rant/r-rlast22.html

[Adondo]

$2 million lottery winner still gets food stamps

msnbc.com news services
updated 5/19/2011 10:44:25 AM ET

DETROIT — A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close.

Leroy Fick, who lives near Saginaw, took a lump sum payment for his June 2010 prize, buying a house, a used 2008 Audi and investing the rest, attorney John Wilson said on Wednesday.

"If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it," Fick told a reporter from local station TV5.

The income he receives from investing the remaining money leaves Fick eligible under federal rules for food assistance of "far less than $5,000 for the year," Wilson said.

"There is no asset based testing for it, it is all based on income," Wilson said. "The amount that he has invested of this winnings spins off an amount of income and that income is such that he is eligible."

Michigan has been working with federal officials for two or three months on ways to close the loophole, said Gisgie Davila Gendreau, a state human services department spokeswoman. She was not speaking about Fick's case specifically.

"We are actively seeking a change to the food assistance policy, which is a federal policy, to ensure that those who are truly needy qualify," she said.

Michigan state Senator John Moolenaar, a Republican from Midland near where Fick lives, has proposed requiring lottery officials to share winners names with government departments and remove them from public assistance programs.

"Taxpayer dollars should be used to help the truly needy, and we must stop situations like this from falling through the cracks," Moolenaar said in a statement on Wednesday.

From here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43091952/ns/us_news-life/

On edit: My headline title was SUPPOSED to say: "This is pretty ridiculous TO say the least" darn it, and now I can't change it!!

[LWM]

On edit: My headline title was SUPPOSED to say: "This is pretty ridiculous TO say the least" darn it, and now I can't change it!!

I fixed it for you, but when you go into the edit mod you can select "advanced" to change your post title (you cannot change thread titles however).

[cico7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopZgJaWstk&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopZgJaWstk&feature=player_embedded)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mugGjnqm3UQ&feature=player_embedded

[Sal-XK]

Now you know why I broke my back doing the crap LOL

[IamJEEP]

You'll notice that on most (if not all) drive-thru ATM's there's Braille labeling. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but if you're DRIVING to use a DRIVE-THRU ATM, and you need to read the button labeling with Braille... ??? :p
And the Volt. So, they are ''green'' huh? Where do people think the power comes from to charge the battery pack? The more of these things hit the roads, the more the smoke stacks on coal fired power plants will belch out CO2 and the like. Green my a$$.

Read this article from Car Talk: http://www.cartalk.com/content/rant/r-rlast22.html

LOL, I actually asked the drive through teller about that and she looked at me as if I was a dumba$$. She proceeded to say that they are the same ones used on the inside of the bank, but I allready knew that........guess she didn't get my "joke". Oh well....

[Simplewon]

1. Fiat

2. No more Viper(I know it's coming back, I hope not wimpy like the gc, wimpy as in weak, fragile, breakable, not slow)

3. No more Commander(2nd time the fsj has stopped production)

4. Fuel injection gets less than 40mpg? Who programs the engine computers, oil companies? Quadrajets do better. Sad, Sad.