[Quietcars] Hello again.

[michael townsend]

Don't know if many of you missed me, but I have moved from the Washington
D.C. area in Arlington, VA, to a small but busy town in Central New Jersey,
where there are a lot of trucks traversing these streets, many of which are
loud gasoline powered or diesel powered vehicles.  This would definitely
ensure that a hybrid would have to make more than a joyful noise unto my
ears to be heard.  

The traffic is crazy and drivers are nuts.  

So, what's been up on this list while I checked out and now am checking in>?
Any new projects, thoughts, decisions>?  I know for sure that the auto
industry is in turmoil, and what happens next is primarily up to congress
and the president.  How will this effect legislation pertaining to quieter
cars?  Will the mergers of GM and Chrysler, for example, hasten this
decision to promote safety over economics?  Or, will it be that two American
car companies or possibly one will take on the foreign companies and a
forthcoming solution be delayed until a solution across the board solution
be found?  

I want the American three to merge, preferably into one, but more than
likely two companies and sell the most effective and efficient cars and
trucks, to make money and have the American dream on four or more wheels,
regardless, and the hybrid solution to be a plausible one which is
implementable across the board.  

In closing, the stopgap measure is the hybrid, the final solution is energy
independence, which might involve other forms of propulsion, but we have
what we have at present. 



Mike Townsend and Seeing Eye dog Brent
Dunellen, New Jersey  08812
emails:  mrtownsend at optonline.net; 
michael.townsend54 at gmail.com
Home Phone:  732  200-5643
Cellular:  732  718-9480