Climate protesters tell
carmakers 'the party is over'
Reuters,
by
Ilona Wissenbach
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/14/2019 4:46:28 PM
FRANKFURT - Thousands of protesters marched in front of Frankfurt's IAA car show on Saturday to demand a swift end to combustion engines and a shift to environmentally friendly vehicles as Chancellor Angela Merkel's government prepares to unveil climate protection measures. Police in Frankfurt said some 15,000, including many cyclists, took part in the march. Organisers put the number at 25,000 and said that around 18,000 cyclists had descended on the city. Protesters took aim at SUVs, seen by environmentalists as a highly polluting status symbol that has no place in cities. "STOP SUV," "SUV not cool," and "We can't replace
Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 9/14/2019 4:55:00 PM (No. 179955)
terrorists..
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 9/14/2019 5:15:58 PM (No. 179971)
Time to buy an SUV just to tic them off, or get a couple of Vipers or Hellcats burning rubber to smoke them. Nothing like the smell of burning rubber to PO environmentalists.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bgarrett 9/14/2019 5:17:22 PM (No. 179973)
All ya gotta do is: Make a list of who the protesters are and make sure that they dont benefit from the internal combustion engine. No food or clothing or shelter that is transported by truck...or train
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/14/2019 5:18:07 PM (No. 179975)
The Brownshirts have found a new home.....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
OkieTom 9/14/2019 5:20:30 PM (No. 179980)
WE NEED MORE CARBON!!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 9/14/2019 5:32:32 PM (No. 179988)
These atavistic dodos must never be allowed in or ON anything which has been made by or with petroleum by-products, or energized by such, they must be compelled to live by their own demands. And if they don't like being told what to do, then they ought to get off their bikes and mind their own business.
As Plato pointed out, the most troublesome people in the "polis" are the meddlesome busybodies. And eternal truth.
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bmw50 9/14/2019 5:33:25 PM (No. 179991)
Climate, gun possession, racism, homophobia, etc, are created problems that don't exist, by the socialists and communists, for the sole purpose of dividing the nation into two groups, the moral left and immoral right. The immoral right are then condemned by the left and since the left controls the media, our schools and education systems, they can teach and convince the ill informed to attack the right and be justified in doing so. This is the exact same tactic (and for the same reason, to gain power) used by Hitler, to attack the innocent who did nothing wrong, but were not even allowed to defend themselves. The left is evil, they have abandoned God, truth, and any sense of values. There is no difference between them and Hitler, Stalin, Mao or other communists who slaughter their own citizens by the millions. That is what America is facing, yet so many are falling for their lies, and have become their stooges, doing their dirty work for them,.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JL80863 9/14/2019 5:35:13 PM (No. 179994)
I would like to see more 550 cu/in Supercharged (Turbos OK) V8 engines. Nothing like the sound of a big V8 just below red line.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 9/14/2019 5:43:01 PM (No. 179997)
#8 - As they scream by you......producing the ever popular Doppler effect
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 9/14/2019 5:57:46 PM (No. 180001)
Go to hell, all of you idiots and whacos.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/14/2019 7:26:36 PM (No. 180065)
A simple observation from someone who was in the workplace for 59 years without letup. If you have time to join a protest, you cannot possibly be holding down a real job.
I went to a protest march when I was sophomore in college; the protest FOR letting James Meredith into University of Mississippi. We returned to our school after curfew, but some coeds helped us crawl back into our dorm. That was my first and my last protest march. I went to work over that Christmas break and never looked back and never finished my degree until I was old enough to appreciate it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 9/14/2019 8:13:50 PM (No. 180079)
I remember a very European fellow commenting, about 25 years back, that his American raised kids thought the little euro cars were funny. And he told them that all Americans would be driving them soon because we were running out of oil.
Fast forward. We have oil. Since the government spoiled cars for us... we now have pick up trucks and SUVs. And Gilet Jaunes rioting in Paris every weekend over gas tax hikes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/14/2019 9:05:57 PM (No. 180100)
They are all truly insane. It is not possible to replace the internal combustion engine for MANY applications and even if you ramped up to replace as many of them as possible, the environmental damage and costs to build electric vehicles and their batteries and build the electrical capability to charge them would probably exceed the combustion engine damage to the environment. These protesters are really stupid.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/14/2019 9:49:43 PM (No. 180119)
Spent today at an 'open' car show, and did the same last weekend. Nothing beats a gathering of 100 or more classic cars with mega-horsepower, lightly muffled, internal combustion engines. Sitting around with a bunch of 50 to 80 year old car buffs (mostly couples) enjoying adult beverages , re-fighting old wars and bench racing must drive these enviro-weenies crazy. That makes it even better.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zarin 9/14/2019 10:21:54 PM (No. 180149)
This is abuse. This is the betrayal of science. Mike Mann & his money grubbing buddies & the bureaucrats who run the grant business for the government have fomented these lies. This is the result of the media pushing the lies and our general population's lack of understanding of basic physics. The media & the government bureaucrats are abusing our children, our old folks and the weak minded who swallow this idiotic swill.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Safari Man 9/15/2019 12:59:15 AM (No. 180192)
Ok, the hoax has gone on too long. It’s time for someone to fess up and tell the truth. It’s gotten out of hand.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 9/15/2019 7:26:11 AM (No. 180288)
Urban Dems refuse to acknowledge legitimate electoral defeats.
.....refuse to allow open and fair debate on college campus (s).
.....threaten to trash America's industrial advantage.
.....fail to acknowledge the importance of our G&O driven economy.
.....promote climate fantasies with doctored data.
.....aspire to a system of government which killed hundreds of millions of innocents through starvation and forced labor....(and we don't even know the true numbers).
.....insist on corrupting the voting process to their advantage.
.....call anyone who disagrees a 'racist-sexist-fill in the blank-o-phobe.
All of which, having removed the option of peaceful transfer of power, will result in Civil War.
.....which they will lose and then lie about.
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