HOW TRUTH WITH SPEEDZZTER CELEBRATES EARTH DAY
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Forty years ago, this Earth Day madness was thrust upon us. Of course there are better ways to celebrate 1970. . . .


Short of burning a stack of tires along with an “ecology flag” or two, Truth With Speedzzter recommends the best way for every automobile enthusiast “ to celebrate” Earth Day is with a few full-throttle blasts in your favorite high-performance vehicle.

If your taste runs more towards vintage stock cars, Bangshift's linked to some good Historic Grand National Stock Car Association action.

AAA NEW JERSEY AUTOMOBILE CLUB CELEBRATES EARTH DAY 2010 WITH THE AAA GREAT BATTERY ROUNDUP®

Comment: Aren’t most batteries recycled already?

CONSUMER REPORTS (tm) (ACTUALLY TOM TOM) BLOWS THE LID OFF OF AMERICA’S “MOST POLLUTED ROADS”

Comment: Of course among the free-range-chicken-eating, hemp-wearing, Naderites at “Consumer Distorts,” the principal component of human breath (Carbon Dioxide) is “pollution.” Thus, the “most polluted” roads are also some of the slowest. While Truth With Speedzzter is all for reducing traffic jams with better high-speed expressway designs, this “most polluted roads” angle seems a tad overblown.

SENATORS DANCE AROUND THE GAS TAX ISSUE

Comment: Those who value our motoring freedoms should love Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). When the vast majority of Washington politicians seem willing to enrich big government with liberty-killing carbon taxes (under the guise of preventing “climate change”), Senator Inhofe has staunchly stood for a fact-based, common-sense approach to energy policy. Senator Inhofe points out again how “bait and switch” politicians try to hide their true intentions (i.e. taxing our automotive liberties out of existence to placate the liberal green lobby) with semantic shell games and misrepresentations. YOU GO, JIM!

AUTOBLOG GREEN’S GUILT GRAPHIC

[Source: Auto Insurance for Autoblog.com]

Comment: Truth With Speedzzter wonders why those who lament American exceptionalism and our First World standard of living simply don’t move to one of those idyllic places that doesn’t use as much energy per capita, such as . . . say . . . Afghanistan . . . .

WILLIE WIREDHAND, MEET REDDY KILOWATT: LARGEST GROUP OF TESLA ROADSTERS MEET IN NOR CAL

Comment: “And she’ll have fun, fun, fun when Daddy takes the battery charger away . . . .” A bunch of Bay-area computer geeks displaying their Lotus-based Autobahn golf cars next to the chilly Pacific Ocean is hardly the pinnacle of automotive fun.

EARTH DAY 2010: DETROIT

Comment: While some would argue that Detroit was already in trouble on Earth Day 1970, the ensuing four decades have brought it to the brink of ruin. 400 liquor stores and only eight grocery stores . . . acres of abandoned land . . . a city in shambles.

Liberals, see what your imports and your jihad against American-made automobiles has wrought. For a more in-depth look at how Detroit has suffered in the “Ecological Age of Aquarius”, see the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit.

WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. EARTH DAY HONOREE

Comment: Sure, Truth With Speedzzter has been unflinchingly hard of “Li’l Billy” at times. He’s to auto execs what the Detroit Lions are to football. Still, Ford’s current ability to capitalize on greeniac madness is attributable, at least in part, to Bill Ford’s dabbling in environmentalism. And on a day when Detroit honestly should have little to celebrate, Bill Ford is being celebrated (by some) as one of Michigan’s “green leaders” (no double entendre intended).

ROUSH-FENWAY GOES GREEN: ACTIVATES SOLAR ELECTRIC PANELS AT CONCORD, NC HANGAR

Comment: Although the Roush-Fenway's solar install probably makes no sense from an economic standpoint, it's probably great public relations. Still, the hard-core auto racing haters won't be happy until the race cars and aircraft are parked and Ol' Jack is worshiping a tree somewhere.

"CONSUMER DISTORTS" DUMPS ON FORD & DETROIT AGAIN

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THE FOLLOWING IS OPINION COMMENTARY BASED ON MEDIA REPORTS.

The most useless magazine in American automotive publishing . . . the "Tokyo Rose" of the automobile press . . . the shameless purveyors of snooty, self-selected, Asian import bias . . . Consumer Reports (R) has done it again.

Apparently subscribing to the "kick'em when they're up, kick'em when they're down" philosophy, the probably tie-dyed, Left-Coast wingnuts at Consumer Reports (R) have reportedly produced about a billion dollars worth of freebee shilling for Team Japan disguised as "journalism" in the fetid "Auto issue" of the Consumer Union's worthless rag.

(Because Consumer Reports (R) arrogantly disdains all advertising, its decades of evangelism for Asian cars cannot be fairly described as "advertising." However, if the Japanese invaders had to buy the same amount of influence among the automotively-ignorant, "appliance motorist" set, it would cost probably a billion dollars in "Truth With Speedzzter's" OPINION.)

Detroit's one category win came in the area of full sized pickup trucks, with the Chevrolet Avalanche edging out the redesigned Ford F150.

Of course, the "appliance motorists" at "Consumer Distorts" apparently gushed again like school-aged fanboys over a host of America-killing, trade-deficit-increasing, Japanese invader cars.

What else is new?

Too bad Obama forgot to put these "geniuses" on the Car Czar team . . . .

Possibly to maintain some illusion among the terminally weak-minded that they're not lock, stock and barrel "in the tank" for Asian imports, "Consumer Distorts" crackerjack Director of Automotive Testing David Champion [sic] had to admit that "Detroit's three auto makers have made 'substantial, incremental improvements in the reliability of their products.'"

Old "Champ" then had to admit that "Ford has made the most progress, especially in their new models" but he then nitpicked FoMoCo, saying it needs to "jazz up their products which now suffer from "so-so styling."

Does "Champ" need a seeing-eye dog? Does he even look at the brain-numbingly boring, "blandtastic" sleds that the Japanese automakers push and dump like baby-boomer crack cocaine onto the American market?

IN THE OPINION OF "TRUTH WITH SPEEDZZTER," Consumer Reports (R) is an embarrassment as a source for automotive data. It is a disgrace to America. Consequently, it will be read like "the Bible" by thousands of car-hating, Detroit-loathing Obama voters. Many of these same blind-eyed, bleeding-heart hypocrites will mouth fealty to the organized labor movement and maybe even weap for the decaying ruin that that four decades of federal meddling and predatory trade practices have created in MOTOWN, as they motor along in their non-union Japanese invader "wondercars."

Some of the rest of us will spend the inflated cost of the wretched "auto issue" on a ticket for the film "Gran Torino."


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The comments herein are OPINION (just like the broadsides that Consumer Reports (R) prints against American vehicles) and as such they are protected by the FIRST AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution.

"Truth With Speedzzter" will afford equal time to any rebuttal from Mr. Champion or any of the alleged "automotive journalists" at Consumer Reports (R) to respond to any comment made herein. In other words, waste your time and your we-don't-accept-any-filthy-advertising money suing someone else.