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Old 05-25-2008, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jbach36 View Post
When I said lighter cars, what I meant was, that ALL cars would have to be lighter now. You can be out in a Miller Light beer can, trying to compete with 18 wheelers. They need an entire new road system, keeping such trucks away from cars in the first place, then some way of perhaps slowly downsizing the weight of cars over years so the current heavy ones get phased out as they get older and not worth keeping up anymore.

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They're trying to get a road system like that here in TX called the Trans Texas Corridor. Many are opposed to it because it would be tolled by a foreign intrest group, and is possibly part of a bigger plan to make Mexico, the US, and Canada one big nation.
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