So, remember how we’re going to dump billions and billions of dollars into the laps of the Big Three automakers, to rescue them from their own myopic decisions? And remember how automakers are suing the crap out of every state that tries to implement California’s tailpipe emission standards? Remember how Obama green-lit the waiver for those standards yesterday, and how those standards are overwhelmingly supported by the public?
Putting all that together, it occurred to New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert to wonder whether automakers will use that taxpayer money to fund their lawsuits against, um, taxpayers.
So she contacted them, and the following day put up a second post: Yes. Yes, they are going to use taxpayer money to sue taxpayers.
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Pompey Road Posted 12:08 am
28 Jan 2009
Is this part of Obama's effort to save or create 3 million jobs?
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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biodiversivist Posted 2:39 am
28 Jan 2009
Was at a dinner party last week where I heard a lawyer horror story. A neighbor, who was a lawyer, had all of the trees cut down on a steep slope above his neighbor's house to capture a view. He had this done while they were away on a trip. The trees were on his neighbor's property. The guy who cut the trees for him did not know that.
When they got home and found all their trees gone they confronted him. He said "sue me." They did. The guy he hired to cut the trees was ruined and the lawyer paid to have the hill replanted, which was his plan all along. He sold his "view" property for a fortune and the hill eventually slid down and damaged his neighbor's house, who spent a fortune building a retaining wall to shore the hill up. Got a lawyer for a neighbor? Consider moving.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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