Obama wants to end $4B oil industry tax breaks.

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Originally Posted by anthonyk

Give it to me at the pump, please. At least it's a more honest-feeling screwing.

I concur with this logic.

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Originally Posted by Homeslice

LMAO..... no.

First, "short ram" is a dumb riceboy term. While the word "short" is indeed correct, there is absolutely no "ramming" going on with those things.

Just call it a cone filter on a pipe and be done with it.

Second, I've never gained any MPG from those things. All they do is add noise and a bit of power.

There's only two ways to "ram" anything into a motor (without a turbo- or super-charger compressor).

One is by sticking an intake in the wind.

The other is by using a column of air/fuel and the effects of gravity, as in "tunnel ram".

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Avatard

There's only two ways to "ram" anything into a motor (without a turbo- or super-charger compressor).

One is by sticking an intake in the wind.

The other is by using a column of air/fuel and the effects of gravity, as in "tunnel ram".

Exactly. And those "short ram intake" gheyness do neither.

All they do is suck in warm underhood air.

And those "heat shields" they sell don't help much.

In my day, we'd use a longer pipe that stretched almost all the way to the ground. Or tunneled it into a hole in the front spoiler.

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Actually, there's another place you can grab air. At the high pressure area at the center of the cowl (but this is known, not surprisingly, as cowl-induction).

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Actually, there's another place you can grab air. At the high pressure area at the center of the cowl (but this is known, not surprisingly, as cowl-induction).

Yep, but it's more difficult to accomplish without cutting metal or buying a custom hood.

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by Dave

Mmm yes and stealing everyones hard earned money through the irs and then awarding it to baby factories and illegals works sooo much better. You're blind faith in that rolling whore we call government makes a fantastic argument towards manditory conscription in this country. Alas you won't even be able to connect those dots

There are two sides to this coin Republicans and Democrats like to toss around yet each side is just as destructive. I do not believe in taxing anyone heavily to redistribute it to less fortunate (Democrats). And I do not like the government creating tax break legislation so corporations who contribute more campaign money (Republicans) benefit. Also, both like to mandate laws that force us to buy/pay for shit we do not need only to serve the pockets of campaign contributors.

Therefore, you are both right...and you are both wrong.

[Switch]

Originally Posted by Dave

Mmm yes and stealing everyones hard earned money through the irs and then awarding it to baby factories and illegals works sooo much better. You're blind faith in that rolling whore we call government makes a fantastic argument towards manditory conscription in this country. Alas you won't even be able to connect those dots

The rich are getting richer off the backs of the working class. Wake up.

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Originally Posted by anthonyk

Give it to me at the pump, please. At least it's a more honest-feeling screwing.

That's why they DON'T give it to you at the pump. If you really knew how much it was costing you, you (and about 300 million other people) would raise serious shit.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Switch

The rich are getting richer off the backs of the working class. Wake up.

And taxing them to give it to the poorest people is going to stop that? How?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

And taxing them to give it to the poorest people is going to stop that? How?

Hopefully by not having to take away as much from the the middle class, to do so.