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Old 02-03-2010, 04:56 AM   #1
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It's a conspiracy headed by Jesse Ventura to promote his "Conspiracy Theory" show.
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Old 02-03-2010, 12:57 PM   #2
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It's a conspiracy headed by Jesse Ventura to promote his "Conspiracy Theory" show.
I am beginning to believe it is a conspiracy, and I don't subscribe to most conspiracy theories; but this press released makes me wonder...

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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood just went nuclear in his tirade against Toyota: He is now advising owners of the eight recalled models to park them and not drive them until they can be brought into dealers to have their accelerator pedals repaired. (full story)
What BS! As I stated earlier, the NHTSA has stated they know of no accidents or injuries that have occured as the result of the sticking gas pedals (that straight from their web site), and now LaHood is telling everyone not to drive their cars?!?

Wow, I guess bailing out the US auto industry wasn't enough, now the Obama Administration has to start a smear campaign against the competition...
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Old 02-03-2010, 03:06 PM   #3
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Toyota is not competition , Toyota is the Holy Grail for GM, they'll never even come close to them.

I believe Toyota did the right thing with the preventive recall and temporary halt to production even though it is only the US that has experienced this kind of "failure". Sure they maybe realized the mechanism could be improved and perfected so instead of waiting for actual accidents to happen they prevented them. And its not like Toyotas are going HAL on their owners all over the place.
I agree with everything except that Toyota is not competition for GM. Anyone who takes customers away (which Toyota does easily) is competition.

But the way the media (and Administration) are playing this is very suspicous. The reason I mentioned the fact that no accidents or injuries have occurred was to point out how the sensationalized press is reporting this. Based on what you see on the news, cars should be crashing all over th place and bodies spewed across America's roadways. We all know that isn't true, but bullshit like LaHood is saying reeks of other motivations...
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