The McWane situation did in fact have something to do with the Bush Administration as it took the dumping incident in the Delaware river and the Publication of the NYtimes article and the Frontline episode for the Justice Department to take action. Bush’s OSHA appointee is on film basically saying they’ll do nothing.

On standards, sure they should be universal, but the lack of existing standards in other places is no excuse for poor standards here.

And Frankly I’ll take no plane over one that will break up in flight or have other serious structural or mechanical issues…. You think the fact they ignored an FAA directive for years and the FAA allowed it to happen is acceptable?

secondly, the reason that the environmental, health and safety fines related to notices of violation don’t amount to much, is because they’re already monumentally larger then those imposed by the countries we compete with. we entered into crappy trade agreements that set us in competition with other countries with no OSHA and no EPA and we’re already in a losing situation. congress knows that they can’t make it worse. if we’re going to give more power to OSHA and EPA, we first need to break the current trade agreements and establish new ones that force competing countries to mirror our environmental, health and safety requirements. that’s the only way that america can stay strong. production is what made this country number 1, all the production we’re sending to china is what’s setting them on the path to surpassing us as the number one economy.

and about the south west thing… you’re bitching about their planes not being inspected frequently enough, but you’d be bitching if they grounded them, and you’d be bitching if they hired more inspectors and raised their prices. nobody got hurt here, don’t take it out of perspective here tough guy…

- Jason.

Aimee’s vision of what the official video should look like is far from the one you’ve posted.

It also was not a response to Will.i.am’s video -we shot this in December long before we heard that he was planning to do this.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Cheers friends!

My commentary was more based out of the fact I’ve had an interest in auto racing for a long time and I was curious if racing is even relevant anymore. Its gotten harder for series and teams to make money and many forms of racing are in crisis.

Many series were appreciated for their technical prowess and these days the only technical prowess really out there to be developed is efficiency related. Auto racing serves as a means to popularize new technologies and as a testing ground for them. Ex. paddle shifting, traction control, etc. in consumer cars originated in F1 style racing. I argue that most series’ don’t have that occurring anymore and aren’t serving as a testbed to solutions for everyday problems, when previously they did.

There just aren’t the resources to spend on the $$$ sink that is AR if there is no payoff to society. And actually it really is quite a wasteful sport in terms of emissions etc. Think of all the fuel 40 NASCARs waste going in circles for 500 laps. 40 times lets say 30 gals times 4 tanks. 4800 gallons of gas just for the race portion of one race, not including qualifying, practice etc.

I mean, they could run these cars on pristine Amazon rainforest lumber, I still don’t think that really amounts to a drop in the ocean compared to the rapidly industrializing east, the millions of SUVs on America’s roads, etc.

The environment is a major problem with plenty of complexity and issues to deal with, absent F1 racing.