House investigation set to ban SUVs!
Time to start saving lives?Finally! One of the more interesting angles to come out of Toyotagate is Dimitrios Biller.
Biller's testimony regarding SUV rollover - completely unrelated to unintended acceleration - and Toyota's attempt to 'cover-it up' demonstrates, " a systematic disregard for the law and routine violation of court discovery orders in litigation," stated House oversight committee Chairman Edolphus Towns.
Well, thanks for opening up that can of worms, Mr. Towns! So, how many people have died in Ford Explorers in the last few decades? How does Ford's coverup compare to Toyota's? More important, why, for decades, has Congress willingly allowed the SUV rollover cover-up to continue?
For the past few weeks Congress has taken numerous opportunities to slam Toyota and the NTHSA. What about Congress?
34 people have died via Toyota's unintended acceleration. Unacceptable and horrible, no doubt. Nonetheless, for decades, Congress enabled more than 100,000 to die, despite mountains of evidence demonstrating SUV design flaws covered up in thousands of lawsuits involving every major automaker.
Maybe it's time for an independent investigation of Congress?
Labels: Congress, suv rollover
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:25 AM
6 Comments:
Hmmmm..... Someone must have been eavesdropping on your earlier post. ;-} Do you think that Congress has the guts to outlaw SUV's?
NOOOO way.
To be honest, I'm surprised this element of the Toyota story even got this much attention.
If this becomes a bigger part of 'Toyotagate' it will have to eventually hurt GM and Ford, as well as Congress. However, I think Toyotagate is almost dead. The people can only stand any story so long without more death and/or sex.
Indigo Incarnates
There won't ever be a government investigationinto GM's quality control problems so long as the Government owns 40% of GM.
I can't help but see some similarities between the tobacco industry's cover up of the effects of smoking and the automotive industry's cover up of SUV safety as well as other safety issues. In both cases, lobbyists for each industry as well as representatives from states who benefited from the respective industry helped in a cover up. We should take some lessons from what has happened to the tobacco industry and apply them to the automotive industry. But..... So long as the American public continues it's love affair with the SUV (similar to America's love affair with smoking due in part to false advertising), the SUV will live on. So what's the chance that the same argument (false advertising) can be used against the SUV? It's a class action lawsuit waiting to happen if you ask me.
robby-d-
check out the Frontline special on SUV rollover. it gets into all of the issues you've covered, and when you see how far back this goes....it's really quite unbelievable.
That being said suv drivers are total low life jerk offs who deserve to roll over and die.
And the things is all the low lives from both parties and the government themselves are major consumers of SUVs. It is time to kick all these low life traitors out of Congress.
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