Business doesn’t give and flying F*** about the rest of us and the vast majority of people and you can include yourself for you comment are too damned stupid to demand better by buying the right thing for the big screen picture, not just your one pixel.

Government is dragged kicking and screaming into the business of making sure business doesn’t rape the planet since we very well can’t pack up and go the the next star over. Originally it would have been enough that a few presidents a century or more ago said, “I like green trees and grass that grows so let’s protect it from the forces of slash and burn business.”

But today people forget that this stuff can all be gone, with the environment benefits (clean air and water to name a couple), in a few decades. All one has to do is look to the Sahara Desert and recall that that desert was originally less than half the size only 1000 or so years ago.

I recall when the world was bright and shiny,when I was young, and I know now that some very serious measure need to be taken and people need to shut their complaining and realize, the free ride was over decades ago. It’s time to clean up our acts, or we better start funding space travel again because we won’t want to live on this planet too much longer.

That was my “Green Message”. Deride me if you like but I like my clean air and water over huge engines any day.

LP640, wake up and smell the air. Life’s good. You are what you think, so think positive!!

Then sell them to US citizens who suffered under the CAFE rules.

Just to screw the government.

As long as performance does not suffer. GM’s 4.5L diesel should generate similar performance numbers to the 5.3L V8. Anything less than those numbers is inadequate.

Do a search on diesel and you’ll find some good reading.

…but back to the diesel thing. Diesel tech is advancing far more quickly than gas engine right now. And, yes, pull up next to an F350 with your window down and so much for even hearing a conversation in your head. The smaller ones aren’t too bad. You’ll get used to it. I think we’d all better get used to it.

I would not be surprised if the poster car for the HEMI, The DODGE VIPER, gets saddled with a smaller, more sophisticated, but no less powerful engine the next time around. Chrysler would be wise to use the VIPER to help them redevelop Hemi power, since the car is produced and sold in such numbers as to not have a big impact on their CAFE. In fact I’m actually frequently amazed such an enormous and powerful engine gets such good mileage as is. You’d think the VIPER would be pulled Lamborghini F/econ numbers but is pretty close to the CORVETTE’s “miracle” F/econ

This is just another lull in the action. Do not despair.

Meanwhile, I hope Chrysler’s Hybrid efforts bear fruit and they prosper by it. It would be interesting if they developed a Hybrid vehicle of the same concept as the VIPER, Stupid power, raw character and performance, yet so quick and responsive you have to be a robot to take to the edge safely.

What I do like that only dodge has and I’m not a fan of diesel unless it’s in a truck, is the Cummins diesel. My friend’s step dad has a Ram 1500 with the Cummins engine and he has it programmed with a Bully Dog chip or whatever you call it and it’s pumping out some insane torque #’s. Probably the quickest pick up truck I’ve been in too.