KØHB wrote:
"Michael Coslo" wrote


I would like to see some leadership realizing that driving single digit
fuel millage SUV's is an unpatriotic act, that building under insulated
McMansions that take immense amounts of energy to heat is an unpatriotic
act.


Naaaah. Those who drive the SUVs are being bitten in the wallet.

Sure. But they are also using up a critical strategic resource, contributing
to the imbalance of trade, and other things like that. Some patriots.



Patriotic? Unpatriotic?

Don't look now, but economics pretty much went global about 50 years ago.
"Patriotism" has didly-squat to do with it.

I think of that often as I contemplate my "made in Tennessee" rig. It
is filled with components from China, Japan, Korea, Maylaysia, Taiwan
and the Philippines.

Congrats on Minnesota's capturing the Little Brown Jug for the first
time in nineteen years. That was a long drought.

Dave K8MN