Should the Government Limit Gas Mileage?
"To the Hagerstown caller who commented on bad gas mileage: Spot on. If the government limited weight to under 3,800 pounds and power to under 300 horsepower, then this wouldn't be a problem, but we are American."
Why should the government limit the gas mileage of vehicles? Since this is a free market (somewhat) and consumers are supposed to vote with their dollars which is why they will stop buying gas guzzling vehicles eventually. You want to remove the SUVs and large trucks that people don't need from the roads? keep the gas prices going up, it's only a matter of time until people can no longer afford to drive them. Or if we want to look at this from a green perspective then the government should tax the heck out of the larger vehicles on the road and that will force people to change. We may be Americans but hit us in the pocketbook and people will change.
Mail Call – A Home for $1000 a month? I’ll Take It!
"I would like to make a comment about the rent in this area. I think it's really ridiculous. I have to move, and I'm on a fixed income. I can find no homes for no less than $1,000, and I think it's just ridiculous." - Williamsport area
Mail Call - The Herald-Mail Online - News for Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
I'm not sure why you think $1000 per month is too much money, but try going closer to Frederick or Montgomery county before you complain. I used to live in Germantown and I was spending $1300 per month for a 850 square foot apartment. I moved out here and now spend $940 per month for twice the space which is a huge savings. The reality is that the rent will never go down in Hagerstown again, especially as Frederick becomes more built up in terms of commercial businesses and people start thinking of Washington County as a suburb of DC. The only way you will find cheaper rent is to continue heading west or into PA otherwise I wouldn't count on spending any less.
I Never Seen this New Fangled Math Before!
"I seen in the paper where they gave that Brandon Morris life in prison. He's a young kid. Imagine if he lives another 50 years - this all I'm saying - what's it gonna cost the state? I saw the other day where it costs $30,000 a year for each inmate. If he lives another 50 years - I just figured it out - it's gonna cost the taxpayers $2,280,000." - Funkstown
Mail Call - The Herald-Mail Online - News for Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
So I just though I would reiterate that some people in this area really need to refrain from ever attempting to do math that will result in some type of public display of their work. I'm sorry Funkstown, but last time I checked, $30,000 x 50 = $1,500,000 which means no one knows where your $2,280,000 number came from. Now if you had stated that he will live for another 76 years then you would be dead on and I would be going "Yay Funkstown! You can multiply correctly!" but alas, I cannot be so cheerful because you have proven that you can not multiply numbers very well at all. My advice... Get a calculator.
Watch Me Drive My Hummer and Laugh at You
"I want to make a comment from the person who said a Hummer is a big polluting machine. I personally own a Hummer, and for their information, a Hummer has a 30-gallon tank and uses the same amount of gas as any other SUV or large vehicle on the road. I only drive this about 15,000 miles a year, so therefore I'm not polluting the earth any more than someone who drives a four-door economic car that racks 25,000 to 30,000 miles a year. So before you go bashing a Hummer you need to get your facts straight. I pay my car payment, I can afford the gas, I don't live on welfare or assisted living, so what's the problem? I think the problem personally is that the average American can't afford a Hummer, so the problem here is just pure jealousy." - Rohrersville
Mail Call - The Herald-Mail Online - News for Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Man, Mail call is at its best today. I'm jealous because you can afford a hummer? Wrong again, I'm actually ticked off because you drive one and assume that you are less at fault for pollution because you only drive it half as much as people that drive smaller cars. Actually, you still a polluting the air twice as much as me regardless of how you try and argue your way into feeling better about yourself. The fact that you can buy a big, fuel guzzling, useless car does not impress me or most people on the road and I would probably appreciate if you stayed away from me with your said Hummer. I love people who use incredibly flawed logic publicly in order to make statements that can't hold up under scrutiny.
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