Ferrari Mailing List: Re: New Indian Supercar [Ferrari Digest, Vol 18, Issue 18]

[BRIGANDBAR (BRIGANDBAR]

One more thing about this new creation from India. It might liven up the  
debate in the Michigan Republican Primary as the epitome of "outsourcing". Of  
course the "Detroit Big Three" could just each purchase a variant of this  
pseudo-car licensed from TATA and then push them out to increase their CAFE  
fleet 
ratings.
 
And there is one added "feature" that we all, perhaps, have missed. When  the 
new Federally approved, anti-terrorist National Identification Card (aka the  
new, Patriot Act Conforming Driver's License document that we all will soon 
be  compelled to obtain) is issued and the government then figures out that by 
a  coding in the strip on the back of the license document that they can 
record the  identification, CAFE score, etc., of each individual automobile 
that we 
drive  (we won't even mention adding to the coding when one purchases a 
firearm, but of  course this would just be for police officer safety as he 
could 
put the license  into his card reader and learn if you own any firearms that 
"might" be in the  vehicle involved in the stop) they will be able to develop 
CAFE scores for each  individual driver. Then, of course, we could also have 
"traffic fine civil  surcharges" similar to the ones enacted in VA recently and 
those us who don't  have conforming individual CAFE scores may be ordered to 
pay 
surcharged  penalties for each traffic offense. But then again, each of us 
could also  purchase one, or more if necessary, of these pseudo-cars, either 
the 
 original TATA Indian version (which could, in the interests of minimizing  
outsourcing could have a factored reduction in CAFE benefits) or one of the  
variants pushed out by the "Detroit Big Three" (no value reduction required  
here, even for Chryslers since they were sold off by the former DCAG).
 
As for the additional social engineering techniques that may be  developed 
from this field of micro-pseudocars, and their potential for becoming  a 
"jumping off point" for the "Greening of the World", well only the minds of  
our 
legislatures  and public officials will be the limit.  And when  such a leader 
is 
blessed with the cash proceeds of something such as the Nobel  Prize that 
person could use these proceeds to buy up a fleet of micro-pseudocars  and then 
use their CAFE, etc. points to compensate for the credits lost by $2k  electric 
bills in their residences, travel by personal jet aircraft, etc., and  thus 
avoid living in the Brave New World that they were instrumental in  creating.
 
Living on the cutting edge of the "Brave New World" gets more exciting  every 
day.
 
Dr. Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III...........1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL...................................1982 RR Corniche
1985 MB 280 GE  G-Wagen..................1985 GMC Brigadier 20 Ton 
Winch/Wrecker
1988 Rolls  Royce Silver Spur................1990 Cadillac "Eagle" Hearse
1994 F-350  Powerstroke 4x4................1995 Ferrari 348 Spyder
1996 Bronco  .......................................2000 Lincoln Town Car
2004  Excursion...................................(+ Audrey's 2x MB's)
and  a
1976 Fire  Truck................................... [HAHN- WARNER & SWASEY- 
DUPLEX  DIVISION 
                                                           HOWE  APPARTUS.  
THE MODEL #R400 FIRE TRUCK 
                                                           w/a 100'  Tower 
System

Dr.  Stephen B. Spies, CES, CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences  Laboratory
Explosives Engineering Technologies

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