Re: Why Cant things be the way they used to be???

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 27, 2004 at 16:20:46 from (209.226.247.14):

In Reply to: Why Cant things be the way they used to be??? posted by Tommy H on March 26, 2004 at 22:15:30:

Tommy: I think you have two issues at hand here, one is progress and I don't think for one minute we should or could stop that. The advances that have been made in areas of medicine, education, shelter, food, etc. are such an improvment over what our forefathers had to live with.

The big problem today is people much too easily part with their money. This has evolved over the past 50 years and has accellerated in the past 20 years. Corperate America even has people convinced they shouldn't dicker over price anymore. You go to an auto - light truck dealer today and start to dicker or compare prices, you will undoubtedly be hit with the statment," May be you can't afford the xxxxxx vehicle." No, they want a finincial statment from you and they will decide what you are going to drive and how much you will pay for it. This has all gone to the point that manufacturers no longer have to offer that extra quality for reasonable few extra dollars. Oh sure they will sell you the same junk for extra dollars in the name of quality. No my friend, the answer lies in we the public learning to say no.

I think a few things have been cramed down our throats though. Front wheel drive cars for one. No one will ever convince me it is cheaper to build a car with the same set of wheels doing both driving and steering. Car efficiency, when I learned to drive my dad had a 57 Belair Chevy, would give you 27 miles to the Canadian gallon highway driving. To day I have a Buick LeSabre, 27 mpg, highway. On the highway where quick responce and accslleration are needed that Chevy would leave this Buick in the dust. I will say the Buick has close to 300,000 miles on it, I doubt if too many 283 Chevy's ever did that. My point here is all to do with efficiency and emissions. If we are still burning just as many gallons per mile we are still using as much oxygen, to burn that gasoline. That depletion of oxygen will do us in just as quickly as the emissions.

I had a Farmall 656 diesel and mowing 5 acres per hour with a 9' haybine, that tractor would run on 1 Canadian gallon per hour. I guarentee there is not a tractor built today will give you that kind of fuel efficiency. I rather expect the fuel consumption per acre of mown hay has doubled in the past 20 years. Again our overuse of oxygen.

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