It has nothing to do with air quality, just the ability to produce energy efficiently.

The Smart car is really not that bad for two people on a long drive, although western US highways are a bit more rough than the French and German roads I drove a Smart ForTwo on with my father. I also drove one (an early model) in Salt Lake a few years ago, it seemed to handle the hills fine and even the climb to Park City on I-80 (no worse than a base Mini I owned for a few years). Mercedes did their homework before sending the Smart to the US.

In recent weeks, the CCDC has been quietly asserting this with the surreptitious replacement of standard Street Signs with the Blue / Private Street ones, and have even gone so far as to mark curbside parking spaces with Yellow Paint vis-a-vis the standard White Paint found elsewhere on City Streets.

Reasons may include the desire to restrict access to the “Right Kind of People” (Quote from Mayor pro tem Tertling-Payne at State-of-the-City Address), and to insulate the City from liability associated with its tacit approval of beer trucks, etc., using Downtown’s most strategic Fire Lane as a long term Parking / Loading Zone (despite a plethora of viable alternatives) during the busiest times of the day, and the inevitable tragedy that will result.

Regardless, as a walker on the Greenbelt, I think its lovely to have one place to walk without having to worry about getting run over by a speeding bicyclist or smushed btween two passing cyclists.

You are right, McCain admitted it (and I am not voting for McCain), but Obama lives it. Have you read any of his economic proposals? $300 BILLION a year in new or expanded programs (2.5 times the ccost of the war), a Jimmy Carter ‘wear a sweater’ energy plan, and a really big tax increase are not the things to fix the economy. McCain is honest about his limitations, Obama hopes to fake it with a adoring press.

Where do you get your slogans, the DNC fax machine?

If nothing else, it provided some much needed comic relief to about a thousand other FireFIGHTERS in the Chow Line that day, and a running joke that lasts to this day amongst my friends.

I still don’t know what a Muskrat looks like.

I must be slow today. I don’t get the double entendre.

On another note, I find it quite strange and sad that our species is so out of touch with nature that the average person living in the states does not know the difference between a coyote and wolf or an elk and a moose.

EDITOR NOTE–Re the car, you are probably correct, but it is not as interesting to contemplate. However, we did not see any sort of towing device on the front.